WestJet flight cancellations are causing travellers at the Calgary International Airport to reschedule their itineraries or miss out entirely on vacation plans as the airline faces a looming pilots' strike.
As of Thursday afternoon, 92 WestJet flights had been cancelled across Canada, including 26 departures from Calgary.
"We missed out on a number of gallery tours and a dinner and a couple of special events. We don't know what their refund will look like. We'll have to work with our tour provider on that," she said. "I still have a return flight with WestJet, so we're just going to have to monitor the status of the labour dispute," Eerikainen said.
"We remain at a critical impasse with the union and have been left with no choice but to begin taking the painful steps of preparing for the reality of a work stoppage." In a statement, Air Canada said it has "minimal ability to increase capacity," but its staff are aware of the situation and prepared to assist.
Bernard Lewall, who heads the union's WestJet contingent, says the workers' issues revolve around pay, job security and scheduling, with pilots earning roughly half of what some of their U.S. counterparts make. WestJet's latest offer to the union would see wide-body plane captains earn $350,000 in total compensation annually by the end of the collective agreement term, according to a letter to flight crew from the company obtained by The Canadian Press.Lewall noted some 340 pilots have left the carrier over the past year and a half, mostly for other Canadian airlines, but von Hoensbroech said WestJet's mainline fleet has hired three times that number of pilots.
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