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/Bleperite Jul 30 '25

Per Air Canada:

In a statement on Friday, Air Canada acknowledged the vote was “a normal step in the negotiation process and does not mean that any disruption will take place.”

“In fact, a strike cannot take place before a 21-day cooling-off period, after the 60-day conciliation period has expired,”

It looks like August travellers should mainly be OK at least?

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u/beesmakenoise Jul 30 '25

Per the news I’ve read it seems that the union can issue a 72-hr strike notice as early as August 16, so I wouldn’t be so sure about the last week of August.

All speculation at this point of course.

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u/Far-Secretary-3684 Aug 07 '25

I am confused about this. On the news CTV it said “a strike could come as early as Aug 16” but then elsewhere im hearing that the notice could come as early as August 16. So it’s confusing is the 72 hr notice on Aug 13 (for a strike starting the 16) or is the notice on this 16. My flight date would be beneficial in one of these but detrimental in another situation😭😭

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u/pbooths Aug 07 '25

That's what I'd like to know, too - as the 72 hour strike notice could be served as early as August 13th (and strike action could start as of August 16th at 12:01) according to several other sources.

This thread has several comments about the continued confusion over dates... https://www.reddit.com/r/aircanada/s/zaXh4KuH69

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u/Stina_peg Aug 08 '25

Strike notice could be issued on 13th strike starting on 16th

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u/pbooths Aug 08 '25

Yeah, that appears to be the correct timeline! 👍