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Canada Airlines All operations were arrested, as more than 10,000 airlines at the airline were hurt early on Saturday after a final date to reach an agreement.

A spokesman for the Canadian Federation of Public employees, Hugh Poliot, confirmed that the strike began after not reaching a deal, and the airline said shortly after that it will stop the operations.

“We are now in the strike! The sit -in lines will be active in all rules,” Al -Ittihad said in a statement.

This is the first strike by the flight attendants since 1985.

A bitter battle escalated between the largest airline in Canada and the federation, which represents 10,000 flight attendants on Friday, as the federation rejected the airline’s request to enter the arbitration directed at the government, which will lead to the elimination of its right to strike and allow the third -party mediator to determine the conditions of a new contract.

The flight attendants went out of the job at about one o’clock in the morning on Saturday. Almost at the same time, Air Canada said it will start closing flights from airports.

Federal Minister of Jobs, Patty Hagdou, met both the airlines and the federation on Friday night and urged them to work hard to reach a deal “once and forever”.

“It is unacceptable that such small progress be made. Canadians depend on both parties to provide their best efforts,” Hajdo said in a statement published on social media.

Poliott, a spokesman for the Federation, said earlier that the Federation held a meeting with Hagdo and representatives of Canada Air early on Friday evening.

He said in an e -mail: “CUPE has been engaged with the broker to convey our willingness to continue bargaining – despite the fact that Air Canada has not treated our last two shows since Tuesday.” “We are here to negotiate a deal, not on the strike.”

The full closure will affect about 130,000 people per day, and about 25,000 Canadians will accept abroad every day. Air Canada operates about 700 flights per day.

Keelin Bringinitz, from Ottawa, was returning with her family from a European holiday when they were fractured at Heathrow Airport in London after the abolition of flights. She said that there was a choice for travelers in the queue to go to the United States, but he was told that there would be no other help as soon as they landed in the United States

She said: “It didn’t go well with the line. No one was really interested, everyone looked almost somewhat entertaining with the proposal, or angry, because it is somewhat absurd to offer passengers that cut them to a different country to ignore them there.”

Alex La Roche, resident of Montreal, 21, and his girlfriend has been saved for their European vacation since Christmas. Now their 8000 dollar journey with non -refundable residence at stake while waiting to listen from Air Canada about the fate of their journey on Saturday night to Nice, France.

La Roche said he was considering reserving new flights with a different airline, but he said that most of them are almost full and cost more than 3,000 dollars that they paid for their original tickets.

“At this stage, it is just a waiting game,” he said.

La Roche said he was initially annoyed by the Union’s decision to strike, but he had a change in the heart after reading the main issues in the contract negotiation center, including the issue of wages.

“Their wages are barely fit for living,” Larosh said.

The airline said it will also provide alternative travel options through Canadian and foreign airlines as possible. But she warned that she could not guarantee immediate reservation because flights on other airlines are already full “due to the peak of summer travel.”

The airline said in a statement, “Air Canada strongly advises the affected customers not to go to the airport unless they have a confirmed ticket to an Air Canada or Air Canada Rouge,” the airline said in a statement. “Air Canada strongly regrets the impact of the strike on customers.”

In anticipation of the strike, the airline started Canceling flights on Thursday and Friday Also, the flight attendants were not provided.

How long will the airline planes be accumulated, but Mark Nasr, the chief operating official of Canada Airlines, said that it may take up to a week to restart the operations once a complete temporary deal is reached.

The travelers whose travel will be affected will be qualified to request a full recovery on the airline website or mobile application, according to Air Canada.

Air Canada and the Canadian Union of Public employees were in about eight months, but they have not yet reached a temporary deal.

The two sides say they remain away from the issue of payment and unpaid hosts of work flights when the planes are not in the air.

The last offer of the airline included an increase of 38 % in total compensation, including the four -year pension and pensions, which said, “It would have made our flight attendants the best compensation in Canada.”

But the union retreated, saying that the 8 % proposed increase in the first year did not go sufficiently due to inflation.