Air Canada Jazz and PAL Airlines flights continue to operate as usual
MONTRÉAL, Aug. 16, 2025 /CNW/ – Air Canada today said that it has suspended all operations of Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge due to a strike by its 10,000 flight attendants represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). The strike, which affects approximately 130,000 Air Canada customers, took effect at 12:58 am Eastern Time on August 16, 2025. Flights by Air Canada Express, which are operated by third-party airlines, are not affected.
Do not go to the airport unless you have a confirmed ticket
Air Canada is strongly advising affected Ottawa customers not to go to the airport unless they have a confirmed ticket on an airline other than Air Canada or Air Canada Rouge. Air Canada will notify customers with imminent travel of additional cancelled flights and their options.
What if your flight is not yet cancelled?
For those customers due to travel soon whose flights are not yet cancelled, Air Canada has put in place a goodwill policy to allow them to rebook their travel or obtain a credit for future travel. For more information customers should visit aircanada.com/action.
72-hour strike notice
CUPE served Air Canada the statutory 72-hour strike notice on August 13, 2025. Both sides have been negotiating for eight months and they remain far apart on the issues of pay and the unpaid work flight attendants do before the planes leave the ground.
The airline has since been gradually reducing its schedule of approximately 700 daily flights to manage the labour disruption created by CUPE’s strike notice, while working diligently to reach a new, negotiated collective agreement and avoid further labour disruption.
Approximately 130,000 customers will be impacted each day that the strike continues.
“Air Canada deeply regrets the effect the strike is having on customers,” reads the statement from Air Canada.
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