Air Canada began canceling flights Thursday ahead of a possible strike by its flight attendants that could impact hundreds of thousands of travelers.

A complete shutdown of the country's largest airline threatens to impact about 130,000 people a day.

On Friday, the carrier said in a post on X that the "wind down" ahead of an impending strike had led to 294 flight cancellations, affecting 55,726 people.

In a social media post Thursday, the airline said that nearly 300 flight attendants, "twice as much as usual," did not report to work Thursday night.

"This will result in additional cancellations," the airline said. "We regret the inconvenience to customers."

Mark Nasr, chief operations officer for Air Canada, said the airline has begun a gradual suspension of Air Canada and Air C

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