WestJet’s union ends strike after over 800 flight cancellations and deal with carrier – All you need to know

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Canada’s second largest airline, WestJet, has cancelled 829 flights from Thursday, June 27 to Monday, July 1, which is also considered to be the busiest travel weekend of the season. The reason for this is a strike by 680 workers who are engaged in the daily inspections and repair tasks for the airline. However, as per the recent development, the union representing WestJet Airlines’ striking mechanics has negotiated a contract with the carrier, ending their strike immediately on Monday, July 1. 

Out of the 829 flights cancelled, 410 flights, almost 50 per cent of the total, were cancelled alone on Sunday.

The cancellation of hundreds of flights has the tendency to affect the lives of thousands of people, resulting in the cancellation of business meetings, holidays and what not. Not only this, but it has definitely impacted the business numbers of the airline along with the workers’ day-to-day life.  Reportedly, the flight cancellation has affected the plans of roughly 110,000 travellers over the Canada Day long weekend and prompted the carrier to demand action from the federal government.

Among the many commuters, Trevor Temple-Murray, who waited in a car with his wife and a two-year-old son in the parking area of Victoria, British Columbia, airport, had to reschedule their flight with less than a day’s notice. Temple-Murray said that we’ll just have to wait it out as we were trying to get a plane to Calgary. Their 6:05 p.m. flight had been cancelled, and they wouldn’t know until the evening whether a scheduled 7 a.m. flight the next day would go ahead or not. “There are a lot of angry people in there,” Temple-Murray said, pointing at the terminal.

Another flyer, a grade 10 exchange student, Marina Cebrian, said she was