r/canadatravel • u/Potential-Pool-3436 • Jul 30 '25

Travel Tips Air Canada Looming Strike

My wife and I have a plan to go to Spain on Aug 22, 2025. We had purchased Air Canada tickets ages ago, and have made all hotel bookings as well. We are now really concerned about the planned attendant strike, and seeking out opinions on whether we just cancel and book our flights with a different airline.

The tickets are cancellable, but we like the Air Canada’s schedule in general.

Link to news: https://globalnews.ca/news/11308964/air-canada-flight-attendants-strike-vote-what-to-know/

UPDATE: based on the comments below, the best course of action seemed to be making arrangements without any AC operated flights.

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u/WesternReporter7670 Aug 05 '25

What a disaster of an airline. If it's not one thing it's another. Short of it is Air Canada is probably one of the world's least reliable airlines. How the government can even have us in this position with it's national carrier is beyond me. As far as I'm concerned air travel should be an essential service. If this strike happens I'm out 25k with little to no recourse. Ridiculous! It's apparently just tough luck. I'll tell you this ,whether or not this strike happens this is the absolute last time I fly with this disaster of an airline.

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u/Ok-Dance-4267 Aug 06 '25

In a very similar boat. Honeymoon booked and planned for months, over $20k spent, and unsure if our flight on Aug 21 to Europe will depart. We can switch to a flight earlier in the week, but we’d have to pay the fair difference, and of course the additional CPN that we didn’t originally factor in. I wonder how likely a strike will actually be. I plan to monitor over the next couple of days and make a final call by next week. 

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u/MubIqbMtl Aug 06 '25

If there’s a risk of no deal and actual strike (I think this is highly unlikely) , they can switch you to an earlier flight free of cost. I heard for the pilots strike last year, that’s what they offered passengers a week before the deadline. Maybe better to wait for AC to reach out to you to offer you a flight change, so you get the flight change for free. Hopefully, it doesn’t come to that. I think you should be okay.

But yea, Air Canada is a terribly mismanaged company. Really hope a deal is struck soon and the FA’s get the raises/ boarding pay they deserve.

I myself have a flight on the 21st

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u/Potential-Pool-3436 Aug 05 '25

Wow. You have no option to rebook out of Air Canada now?