‘A lot of turbulence’: Air Canada Flyers describe Cancellation, the covering of chaos in the midst of strike
Travelers in Canada and abroad clambed themselves on Sunday to secure flights after the Air Canada’s flight attendants had sparked a federal back-to-work order, so that the plans of the airline to resume the activities stopped abruptly.
Lila Rousseaux, who was planned to fly home with her family from Zurich to Toronto on Sunday, said CBC News that she spent all Saturday on her phone on her phone for news about or her flight would be canceled.
At 12.30 on Sunday she was informed that it was.
“I spent an hour and a half on the phone with the agent … a lot of turbulence,” said Rousseaux.
“There was a lot of inflexibility in terms of what can be done,” she said, adding that her suggestions to take a train to Amsterdam to catch an airplane or fly directly to the US before she drove across the border were rejected by the agent.
Air Canada says that it is planning to restart flights on Monday evening after striking stewardesses fed the back-to-work order from the federal government on Sunday morning. For Lila Rousseaux, an old customer of Air Canada, the stopping has resulted in the weekend in the airline’s inflexibility while she and her family try to lead their way home.
Rousseaux said that she finally booked a “terrible” overnight flight to Atlanta, and complained that she was no longer sitting with children.
“The need in my family is very acute,” she said.
Ottawa moved to intervene on Saturday in the labor conflict, less than 12 hours after the strike and lockout in force, in which Minister of the Federal Job Patty Hajdu said she called on section 107 of the Canada Labor Code to ask the Canada Industrial Relations to order the two parties and the two parties and the two parties and the two games and the two parties and the two parties and the two parties and the two parties and the two parties and the two games and the two batches and the Two -Messation Air owner to prove on the trade in the time.
The airline, based in Montreal, then announced early on Sunday that it was planning to resume flights in the evening, but only a few hours later the trade union that represented more than 10,000 stewardesses represented in a statement that members would strike that would endure those plans and Air Canada encouraged to cancel around 240 flights.
Hundreds of stewardesses from Air Canada demonstrated outside Vancouver International Airport on Saturday. The strike led to a warning for passengers to avoid the airport, unless they have confirmed a booking on another airline. Shaurya Kshatri reports.
At Vancouver International Airport there were passengers in long rows to get the latest updates about their delayed and canceled flights, while employees demonstrated outside with signs with the text: “Unpaid work will not fly.”
Chi ehis told the Canadian press that she had to pay an extra $ 2,000 extra to meet her family in Florida for a vacation after her flight was canceled on Sunday morning.
Instead of flying directly from Vancouver, she now takes a bus to Seattle before catching another, more expensive flight.
“I can’t scream. I just have to find out what to do,” said Ehis, adding her flight ticket to $ 1500.
Mark Carcasole from CBC speaks with Moxey Munch on tips for Air Canada customers
In Toronto, Khalid Muhammadi told CBC News that he was flew from Dubai on his way to Edmonton, but is now stuck on Pearson International Airport.
“Westjet asks eight Grand; what should I do?” he said.
Muhammadi expressed frustrations with the federal government for not resolving the labor dispute.
“You knew there would be a strike … do your work.”
Air Canada has said that passengers whose flights are being canceled are offered a full refund or the possibility to change their travel plans without compensation.
However, it said that according to Canada Aviation Protection Regulations, customers are not eligible for compensation for costs incurred during travel delays that are considered outside the check of the airline.
“Customers in Canada are not eligible for compensation for delayed or canceled flights, meals, hotels or other incidental costs for situations outside the courier’s check, such as a disruption,” the airline said.
Air Canada said in a press release that his flights would resume Monday evening, although a message on the booking page said that all Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge flights were canceled until further notice.
