A complete shutdown will affect approximately 130,000 people daily, and around 25,000 Canadians will be stranded abroad each day.

Hundreds of Air Canada (AC.TO) employees formed picket lines outside major Canadian airports on Saturday, hours after unionized flight attendants walked off the job in a contract dispute that has dis...

"This is peak season," he said. "The airline does not want to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue... They're almost playing chicken with the flight attendants."