The three-day strike grounded 130 of the airline’s 180 planes and saw more than 1,000 flights cancelled
says it’s working to recover from a logistical nightmare in the wake of a three-day strike by its unionized airline mechanics.. Between Thursday and Monday, 1,051 flights were cancelled, including nearly 300 on the holiday Monday alone. As of Monday, the airline said it was expecting to ground another 27 flights on Tuesday.
The Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association, the union that represents roughly 680 workers, including aircraft maintenance engineers, who walked off the job, said it was “grateful and relieved” to have negotiated a contract covering the next five years. “These disrupted crew members are now being positioned to their home base or next scheduled destination so they can continue with their next assignments and assist us in building the network back up as quickly as possible,” WestJet spokesperson Morgan Bell said in an e-mail.
Prof. Moore added that the aviation industry’s emphasis on a safety-first approach also means a number of routine inspections – many by the mechanics who went on strike – will need to happen before WestJet’s fleet can get airborne. The union said that while it’s glad the strike helped win substantial improvements to its contract, including immediate pay increases, a full restoration of the employees’ WestJet Savings Plan and improved benefits, it regrets that the action unravelled over one of the year’s busiest travel weekends.
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