Air Canada says it will resume flights Sunday after Ottawa intervenes in strike
The Canadian Industrial Relations Board ended the strike by imposing binding arbitration after a contract deadlock, restoring about 700 daily flights suspended during the walkout.
- Air Canada announced it will resume flights on August 17, 2025, after a strike by its cabin crew halted operations in Canada.
- The strike started on August 16 after talks between Air Canada and the union representing more than 10,000 flight attendants failed to produce an agreement.
- The federal government ordered binding arbitration under Federal Minister Patty Hajdu’s directive, and the Canada Industrial Relations Board extended the collective agreement and ended the strike.
- The strike suspended over 700 daily flights, and the flight attendants had to resume duties by 2 p.m. Eastern time on August 17, with operations restarting gradually.
- Air Canada expressed regret for customer inconvenience but noted passengers are ineligible for compensation for disruptions caused by the labour dispute under Canadian regulations.
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The work stoppage of the 10,000 aircrew of the major Canadian airline had paralyzed part of the traffic since Friday. The government ordered an arbitration to force the resumption of work.
Canadian airline Air Canada will resume flights after a cabin crew strike. This happened after the intervention of the government in Ottawa, which ordered that the dispute between the airline's management and the strikers be resolved through an independent arbitration court. The carrier also flies to Prague.

Air Canada says it is restarting flights Sunday
Air Canada says it plans to resume flights on Sunday after the Canadian government intervened and forced the airline and its striking flight attendants back to work and into arbitration.
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