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Air Canada said it would resume flights Sunday after a government directive to end a flight attendants' strike.The Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) "has directed Air Canada to resume airline operations and for all Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge flight attendants to resume their duties" by 2 p.m. ET, the airline said in a statement.The directive came after Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu moved to impose binding arbitration Saturday, extending the existing contract until a new agreement is reached.More than 10,000 flight attendants walked off the job over pay and scheduling disputes after months of negotiations over a new contract.The strike upended travel plans worldwide at the height of the summer season, with around 700 daily flights suspended and some 100,000 travelers forced to ...

Air Canada suspended all operations Saturday morning after more than 10,000 flight attendants walked off the job demanding higher pay and better scheduling protections. The strike has upended travel plans worldwide at the height of the summer season.The airline, Canada’s largest and the country’s flag carrier, estimates that with its roughly 700 daily flights suspended, some 130,000 customers will be impacted each day the walkout continues.It's unclear how long the strike will last or when a deal might be reached. Air Canada Chief Operating Officer Mark Nasr warned that even after an agreement, it could take up to a week to fully restart operations.Air Canada is urging affected customers not to go to the airport unless they have a confirmed ticket on an airline other than Air Canada or ...

A Southwest Airlines pilot, pulled out of a cockpit and arrested on allegations that he tried to fly while impaired, blamed nicotine pouches when police told him he smelled of alcohol, according to law enforcement video released on Thursday.David Allsop was minutes away from going wheels up at the helm of Flight 3772 out of Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport, bound for Chicago Midway, when airport police confronted him on the jet bridge at Gate 2 at about 6 a.m. on Jan. 15, according to a Chatham County Police Department report.David Allsop.Chatham County Police Dept.When asked if he'd been drinking recently, Allsop said "10 hours ago" he had had "a few beers," police body camera footage showed. "Define a few beers?" officer Josiah Best asked."A few beers," the pilot responded.“...

Two blind women traveling from Louisiana to Florida said that Southwest Airlines "forgot" them at the airport following a nearly five-hour flight delay. The women said the ordeal happened on July 14 as they waited to board their flight out of New Orleans, according to WSVN in South Florida. The pair told the outlet that they realized they had been left behind because they were the only two on the Orlando-bound flight. One of the women, Sherri Brun, told the news station that they were told, "You’re the only two people on this flight because they forgot about you.""I was angry and frustrated," Camille Tate said. Southwest denied that Brun and Tate were forgotten at the gate. The airline said the flight the women were scheduled for was delayed almost five hours and that many of the other ...

American Airlines is reviving some of its pre-pandemic destinations like Prague and Budapest, Hungary, as international travel continues to hold up better than domestic demand.Other additions include its first-ever Dallas Fort Worth International flights to Athens, Greece, and year-round nonstop service between Miami and Milan.American is also extending service for next year’s World Cup, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Dallas and between Dallas and Zurich, where soccer’s governing body, FIFA, is based,. Those flights will run from May 21 to Aug. 4 of next year, a bid for more business travel and sports tourism.Brian Znotins, American’s senior vice president of network and schedule planning, told CNBC that the airline saw high numbers of customers from Argentina travel to Doha, Qatar, d...

Pittsburghers are so excited to see the new $1.7 billion airport terminal opening this fall that 18,000 of them applied for 2,000 test day slots even before the date was set.The lucky volunteers chosen to drive to the airport and fly nowhere will be among the first “passengers” to pass under the soaring wood ceiling dotted with more than 4,000 constellation lights and grab some fresh air while enjoying a snack on one of the four outdoor green terraces.They’ll be greeted by Alexander Calder’s reinstalled 28-foot-long hanging mobile, which is named for the city. Then they will make their way through a facility powered by the airport’s own microgrid and staffed by some employees whose kids spend their days playing at the airport’s on-property day care.The new Terminal Modernization Program...

Orzala, of RUSI, said that while influencers with Western passports “roam freely, pose for photos and gain online fame,” those privileges are denied to Afghan women, who are barred from schools, jobs or even walking freely in public without being accompanied by male guardians.There are also moral and ethical dilemmas, she added, because profits from tourism risk indirectly legitimizing and financially sustaining a regime that has institutionalized “gender apartheid.”As for videos from influencers that show Afghan women smiling in the background, Orzala said, “This should never be confused with contentment or consent to the current reality.”“This is not cultural exchange; it’s neocolonial tourism dressed up as adventure,” she added.Visitors to Afghanistan are still in the low thousands a...

Passengers evacuated an American Airlines jet at Denver International Airport on emergency slides after the landing gear caught fire during an aborted takeoff, sending black smoke billowing into the air.One of the 173 passengers was hospitalized with minor injuries while exiting the Boeing 737 MAX 8 that had been due to fly to Miami International Airport on Saturday, according to officials.A video shared with NBC News by a passenger, who wished to remain anonymous, showed the aircraft gathering speed on the runway — before a loud bang was heard followed by strong vibrations and the plane stopping. Meanwhile a round piece of debris was seen rolling from underneath the plane and off the side of the runway."I heard a loud boom so I knew something blew up under the plane," passenger Mark Ts...

A SkyWest flight had to perform a go-around maneuver after it nearly collided with a second aircraft Friday before it landed in North Dakota. The air traffic control tower had cleared the plane to approach the airport, but the pilot "performed a go-around when another aircraft became visible in their flight path," SkyWest said in a statement. The SkyWest pilot identified the second plane as a B-52 bomber. The Air Force said Sunday evening that it was "looking into" reports of a military aircraft “operating in the same airspace” as a commercial airplane. It added that a B-52 assigned to Minot Air Force Base had conducted a flyover of the North Dakota State Fair on Friday evening. Delta Flight 3788, operated by SkyWest, landed safely in Minot, North Dakota, after it flew in from Minneapol...

LONDON — Ellen DeGeneres has made no secret of her new British life, posting social media clips of sheep charmingly trotting into her luxury rural home while she mows the lawn of the sprawling estate, her trademark hair now natural and undyed.But on Sunday she confirmed for the first time that she moved to the United Kingdom permanently for one reason: the election of President Donald Trump last November.“We got here the day before the election and woke up to lots of texts from our friends with crying emojis, and I was like, ‘He got in.’ And we’re like, ‘We’re staying here,” she told an audience at the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham, central England.After her long-running talk show ended amid allegations of workplace bullying, DeGeneres, 67, bought a home in England’s picturesque Cotswo...