

Friday strike deadline looming ahead of the Victoria Day long weekend, the country’s second-biggest airline - and its discount carrier Swoop - was still at the table with the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) at a hotel near Pearson International Airport. The vast majority were out of Calgary or Toronto, with affected routes ranging from London to Las Vegas, Barcelona and Saskatoon. Contract talks between WestJet and its 1,800 pilots seem set to go down to the wire, but the airline has already started grounding some of its planes.Īs of Thursday, the carrier had cancelled 111 flights or 31 per cent of those scheduled for the day, according to tracking service FlightAware.
