Air Canada’s contract offer to its 10,500 flight attendants includes payment for work done before the plane is in motion, a response to a major complaint by employees of the country’s biggest airline.

The airline and the union representing cabin crew struck a tentative agreement early Tuesday morning, ending a three-day strike that caused the cancellation of more than 2,000 flights. Union members must still vote on the offer, which includes 60 minutes of pre-flight pay for crew on narrowbody planes and 70 minutes on widebody jets, a union official said by phone.

The pay for that work will start at 50% of flight attendants’ hourly rate in year one of the contract, rising to 70% by year four, said the official with the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

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