TORONTO — It’s still not clear when Air Canada might start flying again as the flight attendants union resolved Monday to push on with a strike but the airline expressed hope that it could get planes off the ground Tuesday.

Flight attendants were supposed to stop striking Monday after the Canada Industrial Relations Board ruled the labour action unlawful, after the federal government used Section 107 of the Labour Code to force the two sides into binding arbitration.

The board had given the union until noon ET Monday to provide public notice it had ended the strike, but the union did not comply.

“We will not be returning to the skies this afternoon,” said CUPE national president Mark Hancock at a press conference shortly after the deadline had passed.

Hancock said the union would press

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