“Mostly male Air Canada staff have benefited from a significant salary increase to compensate for the increase in the cost of living. Why not the on -board agents, who are 70 % of women? “Said Natasha Stea, president of the SCFP 4091, who represents the Air Canada -based on -board agent in Montreal.
In 2024, Air Canada granted the pilots, a mainly male profession, a salary increase of 26 % the first year of their new contract.
However, in 2025, Air Canada offered on board agent that an increase of 8 % in the first year of their new contract, and only 17.2 % on all four years of the contract.
Air Canada has granted drivers a greater salary increase in one year than the one from which on -board agents will benefit from all four years of their contract if Air Canada reaches its ends.
Today, Air Canada threatens to put its locked-out on-board agent, qualifying the wage proposals of “exorbitant” on-board agent, and hopes that the Minister of Employment, Patty Hajdu, imposes an agreement on on-board agents through forced arbitration.
Since 2015, the growth in remuneration in the predominantly female professions in the air sector has stagnated, while the wages and remuneration of pilots and maintenance personnel have increased by 31 % and 14 % respectively. Air Canada hopes that the federal government will continue to help it maintain this deplorable trend.