Travellers in Canada and abroad scrambled to secure flights on Sunday after striking Air Canada flight attendants defied a federal back-to-work order, abruptly halting the airline's plans to resume operations.

Lila Rousseaux, who was scheduled to fly home with her family from Zurich to Toronto on Sunday, told CBC News she spent all of Saturday glued to her phone for news about whether her flight would be cancelled.

At 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, she was informed it was.

"I spent one and a half hours on the phone with the agent ... lots of turbulence," Rousseaux said.

"There was a lot of inflexibility in terms of what can be done," she said, adding that her suggestions to take a train to Amsterdam to catch a plane or fly directly to the U.S. before driving across the border were rebuffed by t

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