Air Canada reaches deal with flight attendants union to end strike

Flight attendants walked off the job early on Saturday (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press via AP)

Air Canada said it would gradually restart operations after reaching an agreement with the union for 10,000 flight attendants to end a strike that disrupted the travel plans of hundreds of thousands of passengers.

The agreement came after Canada’s biggest airline and the union resumed talks late on Monday for the first time since the strike began over the weekend, affecting about 130,000 travellers a day at the peak of the summer travel season.