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Air Canada To Launch New Long-Haul Routes By Year-End
👉🏻Canada has become the world’s sixth-largest long-haul air travel market as of September. Compared to pre-pandemic levels, departures have risen by 7%, with Montreal Airport standing out with a 20% increase. 👉🏻By the end of the year, five new routes will be added. Air Canada will launch flights from Montreal to Santiago, while Air Transat will begin Toronto–Istanbul services following…
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Air Canada to Gradually Resume Flights Today
Air Canada announced that it will begin gradually resuming operations today after reaching a mediated settlement with the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) under the oversight of mediator William Kaplan. As part of the agreement, the union committed to the immediate return of 10,000 flight attendants, enabling both Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge to restart services that have…
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Government Intervention in the Air Canada Strike
At Air Canada, the country’s largest airline, more than 10,000 flight attendants went on strike Saturday with a 99.7% vote in favor. Following the strike, the company decided to suspend all operations. Canada’s Labour Minister Patty Hajdu instructed the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) to order the cabin crew back to work. The government formally intervened in the process by…
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Lockout Crisis Looms at Air Canada: Flight Attendants Reject Binding Arbitration
In Canada, Air Canada’s flight attendants have rejected the company’s proposal for a binding arbitration process. Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) spokesperson Hugh Pouliot stated, “We will be rejecting the proposal. We will not, under any circumstances, surrender our members’ collective bargaining rights.” Pouliot emphasized their opposition to federal government intervention in the process, saying that even if it…
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Air Canada Fined 10 Million CAD Over Misleading Pricing
Quebec’s Court of Appeal has ordered Air Canada to pay 10 million Canadian dollars in damages for deceptive pricing practices during ticket sales. The court ruled that the airline violated consumer protection laws and described its assumption that those laws didn’t apply to it as “serious ignorance and negligence.” This decision overturned a previous ruling that dismissed the case due…
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