{"id":845050,"date":"2026-08-03T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/845050\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T22:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:00:11","slug":"westjet-strike-over-but-some-flights-out-of-vancouver-remain-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/845050\/","title":{"rendered":"WestJet strike over, but some flights out of Vancouver remain cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While WestJet workers are suspending job action, the Vancouver International Airport (YVR) is warning travellers booked with the airline that their flights may still be affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WestJet and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) announced a tentative deal in the contract dispute early Monday, after several hundred flights were cancelled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">YVR said it would take some time for the airline&#8217;s operations to resume full service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Twenty-one WestJet flights are scheduled to operate out of Vancouver on Monday, while 49 others remain cancelled, YVR said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WestJet Encore flights were unaffected, it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WestJet flight attendants walked off the job on Sunday, in a push to be paid for the hours when they aren&#8217;t in the air, but may still be assisting passengers or waiting on delayed flights to depart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Some WestJet passengers had to deal with the fallout from the disruptions Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tran Thai of Edmonton said his flight was cancelled. To reschedule, he said he has to fly from Vancouver to Victoria Monday evening, then wait on a 16-hour layover before he can get a flight home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I have to wait here all day \u2014 all day today \u2014 to get a flight,&#8221; Thai said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WestJet has not disclosed details of the tentative agreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CUPE members will still need to ratify the deal before it takes effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While WestJet workers are suspending job action, the Vancouver International Airport (YVR) is warning travellers booked with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,30207,193923,294241,55,49809,294240],"class_list":["post-845050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-union-of-public-employees","tag-delayed-flights","tag-tentative-deal","tag-vancouver","tag-westjet","tag-westjet-passengers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845050","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=845050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}