A resounding majority of Air Transat pilots said Wednesday they are ready to go on strike next week, just ahead of the holiday travel season, should airline management fail to table a “modern contract.”

The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), which represents about 700 Air Transat pilots — 98 per cent of whom cast a ballot — said 99 per cent have voted in favour of labour action.

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While not a formal strike notice, the union said the “pilots are prepared for any outcome.”

“Nobody wants to strike,” Capt. Bradley Small, Air Transat Master Executive Council union chair, told National Post.

“The company doesn’t want that. The pilots don’t want that. But we also want a fair agreement.”

Small said that pilots want an agreement in line with what their peers at Air Canada

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