Air Canada today said it has reached a tentative, four-year collective agreement with the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), representing more than 5,200 pilots at Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge.
A deal was announced at the 11th hour on Saturday evening. Air Canada and its subsidiary Rouge operate over 650 flights per day. A shutdown would have affected over 100,000 travellers per day. Some travellers booked backup plans with WestJet and other airlines, pending news of the deal.
Terms of the new agreement will remain confidential pending a ratification vote by the membership, expected to be completed over the next month, and approval by the Air Canada Board of Directors.
Air Canada says customers who used the airline’s labour disruption goodwill policy to change their flights originally scheduled from between September 15 and 23, 2024, to another date before November 30, 2024, can change their booking back to their original flight in the same cabin for free if there is space available.
This comes as good news for travellers, as a pilot strike would have been pretty disastrous for Canadians at home and abroad.
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