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<\/p>\nOne activity planned for this week would\u2019ve been a feather in the cap for 15-year-old Montrealer Mikaela Hosein-Patel after 10 years as a Girl Guide: her first-ever trip to Scotland.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI was looking forward to the train ride from London to Edinburgh the most, and the (Royal Edinburgh) Military Tattoo,\u201d she told Global News. \u201cI\u2019ve been planning this trip for two years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hosein-Patel and 15 other guides and guide leaders from across the country were to embark on a once-in-a-lifetime trip organized by Girl Guides of Canada to visit parts of the U.K.<\/p>\n
They were scheduled to leave Toronto on the evening of Friday, Aug. 15, for nine days.<\/p>\n
When her flight from Montreal to Toronto was cancelled, her dad, Pramit Patel, drove her to Toronto to catch the connecting flight to London\u2019s Heathrow Airport, but when they got there, they got more bad news.<\/p>\n
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That flight was cancelled, too, because of the strike and lockout at Air Canada.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, I was sad and frustrated, just like every other girl that was going to go on this trip,\u201d Hosein-Patel recalled. \u201cYeah, I cried.\u201d<\/p>\n
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She had spent the last two years raising funds to help pay for the $5,500 trip. Though the family believes that the airline will refund the fare \u2014 about 60 per cent of the cost \u2014 the family fears other fees for hotels, event tickets and other transportation might be lost.<\/p>\n
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Patel holds Air Canada responsible.<\/p>\n
\u201c(They\u2019re) generating all these profits every year, and ultimately the staff had to fight for their rights, unfortunately, holding a strike at this point,\u201d he said. \u201cAt the end of the day, customers are the ones that are suffering for this.\u201d<\/p>\n
The airline estimates that 500,000 passengers were affected by the three-day job action that ended overnight Monday. Now, many of those clients are starting to file lawsuits against the airline as well as the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), which represents the cabin crew who were on strike.<\/p>\n
Hosein-Patel\u2019s family has joined a proposed class-action lawsuit against Air Canada<\/a>, filed by two law firms: LPC Avocats and Renno Vathilakis. It is open to anyone worldwide to whom the airline did not provide a reservation for the next available flight or alternative travel arrangements as required by law.<\/p>\n \n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\tCanada will start producing ballistic-protection steel domestically\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755710709_486_frame_108298.jpg\")
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