TORONTO — The union for 10,000 striking Air Canada flight attendants said on Monday they won’t return to work even though the strike, now in its third day, has been declared illegal.

The strike at Canada’s largest airline is affecting about 130,000 travelers a day at the peak of the summer travel season, and the two sides remain far apart on pay and other issues.

Air Canada suspended plans to restart operations on Sunday after the union defied an earlier return-to-work order. The airline said operations would resume Monday evening but the union president said that won't happen.

“If Air Canada thinks that planes will be flying this afternoon they are sorely mistaken. That won’t be happening today,” said Mark Hancock, national president for Canadian Union of Public Employees, or CUPE, whi

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