{"id":838076,"date":"2026-07-31T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/838076\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:00:11","slug":"looming-westjet-strike-prompts-warning-from-travel-advisors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/838076\/","title":{"rendered":"Looming WestJet Strike Prompts Warning from Travel Advisors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(St. John’s International Airport)<\/p>\n

Air travel could be a little dicey over the next little while with a labour disruption looming at WestJet, the country\u2019s second-largest carrier.<\/p>\n

Flight attendants have served notice of strike action while the company has retaliated with notice of a lockout, but observers say some flights could be affected as early as today.<\/p>\n

WestJet is allowing passengers to cancel or change their reservations penalty-free between now and Tuesday, something which travel advisor CAA recommends that people take advantage of if a disruption in service would leave them in a predicament.<\/p>\n

Julia Kent, with CAA, says the compensation issue for cancelled flights is not black and white, as it depends on the situation.<\/p>\n

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Julia Kent (VOCM News)<\/p>\n

She says a passenger\u2019s rights are clearly spelled out in a plain-language document on the CAA website.<\/p>\n

\u201cAirlines are required to book you on another flight that they have a partnership with, if it\u2019s cancelled, within a reasonable time frame,\u201d says Kent. \u201cIf that\u2019s not available, they have to book you on any airline within a reasonable time frame.\u201d<\/p>\n

She says that time frame is 48 hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour rights don\u2019t disappear in the event of a strike or the possibility of a strike.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (St. John’s International Airport) Air travel could be a little dicey over the next little while with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-838076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838076","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=838076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}