by Sammy Hudes

Passengers around the world are feeling the effects after the union representing more than 10,000 flight attendants with Air Canada announced its members were walking off the job after it was unable to reach an eleventh-hour deal with the airline.

The strike officially began just before 1 a.m. ET on Saturday. A social media posting from Air Canada Master Executive Council (MEC), Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA) said that Air Canada pilots stand in solidarity with the flight attendants.

Keelin Pringnitz and her family, from Ottawa, were returning from a European vacation, but were left stranded after flights were cancelled.

“It was an end of my maternity leave kind of trip. We went to the Faroe Islands and Norway, travelling through Air Canada to London,” Pringni

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