Airline locks out about 10,000 flight attendants after they walk off the job

Air Canada grounded hundreds of flights and locked out flight attendants after they went on strike, disrupting some 130,000 passengers a day during the summer vacation season.

About 10,000 flight attendants walked off the job early Saturday after pay talks between the Canadian Union of Public Employees and the country’s biggest airline fell through. At Toronto Pearson, Canada’s busiest airport, the departure board showed one cancellation after another.

Air Canada suspended operations of its main line and Rouge budget brand as the strike began at 12:58 a.m. Eastern time. The Montreal-based carrier had scrapped hundreds of flights in the days before the deadline and said it imposed a lockout in response to the

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