“We support the on -board agents”

While several flights are canceled due to the work conflict between Air Canada and the union of its on -board agents, travelers sometimes pay the price. Therefore, But some support the union anyway.

Kirstin Jeanson, of Winnipeg, traveled with his mother Marie Swanson at Romeo-Leblanc International Airport in the Grand Moncton on Thursday.

“We completely support the on -board agents, whether the strike or not,” says Jeanson.

Despite the interruptions that the strike creates in Air Canada flights, she believes that the game is worth the candle.

“We were prepared for a disruption if it were to happen,” she said.

She claims that she is herself unionized. However, that she supports on-board agents of the Canadian Public Service union in principle.

The situation is annoying for several travelers, including Luc Savard, a Frenchman who comes to visit Canada.

When the strike “we support -board agents” started. Therefore, in the uncertainty that the flights were going to resume, he canceled his flight from Montreal to Moncton at a cost of $ 700. Meanwhile, He obtained from Air Canada Credit as a compensation. but he will not be able to use it within the required time, and will therefore lose this money.

“At the start, Air Canada announced that there would be no flight for five days. I knew there was a probability that it will come back. but I didn’t want to be stuck here, ”he said.

He suddenly had to change his plans during the weekend. decided to rent a car in order to make the car trip to Moncton.

“So it was a bit complicated, and it’s annoyed to lose $ 700. It was stressful, the weekend, to organize things from a distance, ”he says.

He claims that his flight to Canada was full “we support -board agents” of people who had to change their plans at the. last minute due to the flights canceled at Air Canada.

A majority of Canadians support workers. according to a survey

According to a survey commissioned by the Canadian Public Service union and carried out by Abacus Data, a majority of Canadians support one of the main requests of the union.

On -board agents are starting to be paid as soon as the plane is preparing to take off. but they have other tasks to accomplish when the plane does not move. They claim to be remunerated for these other tasks when the plane is stopped. such as boarding, landing, delays and security checks.

According to the survey, 88% of Canadians surveyed support this union request.

The survey was carried out on Friday, before the strike was launched and then declared illegal by the Canadian government.

It was led to 1,500 “we support -board agents” Canadian adults selected on the Lucid platform, a company that provides population samples to probe.

The results were weighted according to the census data in order to be representative of the Canadian population in terms of age. sex, level of education and region. As it is not a really random sample. the firm does not give a margin of error, but indicates that the margin of error for a random sample of the same size would be 3.3%, 19 times out of 20.