The strike that grounded Air Canada flights left hundreds of thousands of travellers stranded from Montreal to Mexico. Now, the turmoil may soon shift to the courts.

Two proposed class actions, filed in Quebec on Monday, accuse both the airline and its flight attendants’ union of failing passengers during the stoppage. The case against Air Canada alone could be worth “tens of millions” of dollars in damages, according to lawyers involved.

The walkout began on Aug. 16 after much speculation in the week prior. It was subsequently declared unlawful and then dragged on until a tentative deal was reached on Tuesday morning. For many passengers, the disruption meant cancelled holidays, missed connections, and frantic scrambles to either rearrange a planned trip or find a way home .

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