Transportation
Air Canada Grounds Flights as Flight Attendants Go on Strike
Passengers for Air Canada at the Pierre-Elliot Trudeau Airport in Montreal, Canada, on Aug. 15.
Photographer: Andrej Ivanov/AFP/Getty Images
Air Canada grounded hundreds of flights and locked out flight attendants after they went on strike, disrupting some 130,000 passengers a day during the summer holiday season.
About 10,000 flight attendants walked off the job early Saturday after pay talks between the Canadian Union of Public Employees and the country’s biggest airline fell through. Flight staff set up picket lines at Toronto Pearson, Canada’s busiest airport, where the departure board showed one cancellation after another.