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Air Canada flight attendants are poised to strike this weekend.
Air Canada is canceling flights and offering rebooking or refunds for affected passengers.
The strike concerns wages and working conditions.
A Canadian airline is canceling flights this weekend in anticipation of a strike by a flight attendants' union.
Air Canada said on Wednesday, Aug. 13, that it received a 72-hour strike notice from the Canadian Union of Public Employees, representing about 10,000 of the airline's flight attendants.
Air Canada carries an estimated 130,000 passengers daily, the airline said, and Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport has three nonstop Air Canada routes: Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, British Columbia.
Flights were canceled starting Thursday as Air Canada began "a phased wind