Air Transat pilots set the stage for a strike as early as Wednesday morning, issuing a 72-hour notice to the struggling company on the cusp of the busy holiday travel season.

The Air Line Pilots Association said Sunday it filed the strike notice after failing to find common ground following nearly a year of negotiations with travel company Transat A.T. Inc., which owns the leisure airline.

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“We’ve been literally locked down here for a week, and some progress has been made,” said Bradley Small, who chairs the union’s Air Transat contingent, in a phone inter

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