Air Canada and its flight attendants have reached an agreement to end the public contract dispute between the two sides, according to the airline and the Canadian Union for Public Employees (CUPE).

Overseen by a mutually-agreed-upon mediator, the talks between Air Canada and the union that represents the 10,000 flight attendants for the organization lasted approximately nine hours before a deal was agreed upon.

Although neither Air Canada nor the CUPE commented on the specifics of the new deal, it includes ground pay . This would see staff get compensation (roughly 50 per cent of an attendant’s usual rate) for their time spent on the ground before a flight takes off. For almost all airlines within North America, flight attendants get paid the moment the plane takes off, and their shift e

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