{"id":69057,"date":"2025-08-14T13:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/69057\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T13:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:07:09","slug":"n-l-tourists-government-scrambling-as-air-canada-strike-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/69057\/","title":{"rendered":"N.L. tourists, government scrambling as Air Canada strike looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/newfoundland-labrador\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The N.L. government says an Air Canada disruption could be &#8216;catastrophic&#8217; to the local economy and tourism industry during the province&#8217;s busiest tourism season.<\/p>\n<p>N.L. government says disruption could be &#8216;catastrophic&#8217; to local economy<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/maddie-ryan.jpg\" data-cy=\"author-image-img\"\/><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/newfoundland-labrador\/author\/maddie-ryan-1.7286447\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maddie Ryan<\/a>  \u00b7 CBC News  \u00b7 Posted: Aug 14, 2025 4:30 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Air Canada plane landing in Ottawa June 18, 2025\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/air-canada-plane-landing-in-ottawa-june-18-2025.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.779788838612368\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Some travellers in St. John&#8217;s are already planning ahead in case of an Air Canada strike. (Michel Aspirot\/CBC)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Air Canada says about 130,000 customers per\u00a0day would be affected by a pending strike that could\u00a0start as soon as Saturday. That includes many people visiting Newfoundland and Labrador.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The company&#8217;s website says it plans on cancelling flights ahead of time, starting Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If a strike happens, it would see more than 10,000 flight attendants walk off the job.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The situation was top of mind for tourists in downtown St. John&#8217;s on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Alanna Wolf, visiting from Toronto, said\u00a0she\u00a0already made alternate arrangements.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;[Our flight home] was supposed to be on Saturday, but yesterday we booked it for Thursday\u00a0because we were afraid of the strike,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And sure enough, a strike happens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>WATCH | We asked these Air Canada passengers about the potential strike. For some, it was the first they&#8217;d heard of it:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NL The N.L. government says an Air Canada disruption could be &#8216;catastrophic&#8217; to the local economy and tourism&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-69057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}