Air Canada Nearly Fully Back To Operations After Strike
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- Air Canada targets ~95% of its operation today (Aug 21) as the restart accelerates.
- An internal resumption dashboard shows 97% of domestic and 99% of U.S. flights expected over the next 24 hours.
- The carrier had projected 7–10 days to fully normalize; refund and rebooking options remain via its exceptional policy.
- The strike ended Aug 19 after a mediated tentative agreement that addressed ground/boarding pay.
Air Canada’s network is snapping back quickly after the four-day walkout by roughly 10,000 flight attendants ended in a mediated deal on August 19. The airline says it’s running about 95% of its schedule today, with third-party tracking and local reports indicating 97–99% of domestic and cross-border flying set to go ahead over the next day.
Passengers may still see isolated cancellations and timing tweaks as aircraft and crews reposition. Air Canada previously cautioned that a week or more might be needed to fully stabilize operations, and it has kept in place an exceptional disruption policy for refunds and rebooking while cleanup continues.
The restart follows a tentative agreement reached with CUPE that ended the first strike in decades and resolved a core issue around pay for ground and boarding duties. Regulators and Ottawa had intervened as the stoppage escalated; with flying largely restored, attention shifts to ratification and how the deal may influence compensation practices across North American carriers.
