6 h. ago Air Canada cancels flights during peak season ahead of flight attendant strike

Canada’s largest airline expects full shutdown as workers protests over claims of ‘poverty wages’ and unpaid labourCanada’s largest airline has started cancelling flights during the peak summer travel season ahead of a strike by more than 10,000 flight attendants over what they say are “poverty wages” and unpaid labour for work when planes are not in the air.Air Canada said it would start suspending flights on Thursday ahead of full shutdown on Saturday after the flagship carrier and the union representing the flight attendants failed to resolve a months-long dispute over pay and working conditions. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Air Canada to cancel flights ahead of possible flight attendants’ strike

Air Canada said it had reached an impasse with the union as the two sides remained far apart in contract talks

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10 h. ago Air Canada to begin cancelling flights ahead of possible strike by flight attendants

Air Canada says it will begin cancelling flights starting Thursday to allow an orderly shutdown of operations with a complete cessation of flights for the country’s largest airline by Saturday as it faces a potential work stoppage by its flight attendants

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14 h. ago Flight cancellations and evacuations ordered as Typhoon Podul makes landfall in Taiwan

More than 5,500 people have been moved from vulnerable areas, some still recovering from storms earlier in the summer

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21 h. ago Seven vital tricks to help you get the compensation you deserve if your flight is delayed or cancelled

Holidaymakers facing delays or cancellations to their flights this summer may not get the full compensation they are owed due to a series of sneaky pitfalls.

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28 h. ago Woman apologises for 'severe diarrhoea' that forced flight to be cancelled

Meghan Reinertsen was being flown back to the US from Portugal, and suffered from severe diarrhoea that was so bad that it caused the entire flight to be cancelled.

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29 h. ago United Airlines flight canceled after female passenger had 'biohazard' diarrhea that destroyed bathroom

A woman shared the shocking story of how she single-handedly canceled a flight by wreaking havoc on the plane's bathroom for an hour and a half straight.

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31 h. ago Woman apologises as her ‘severe diarrhoea’ forces entire flight to be cancelled

Unfortunate passenger and TikTok star Meghan Reinertsen had such bad diarrhoea and sickness on a United Airlines flight that the plane had to be grounded and specialists called in

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49 h. ago Woman apologises after severe diarrhoea ends up cancelling entire flight

Hundreds of passengers were told they were not able to travel after a woman had a violent bout of diarrhoea, leaving people to take to social media to vent their frustrations

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3 d. ago Where temperatures will soar above 30C MAPPED in UK as fourth summer heatwave hits

The UK will be hit with another heatwave next week, the Met Office has said

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3 d. ago easyJet, British Airways and Wizz Air travellers to Spain facing major disruption

The union UGT has already announced repeated walkouts in Ryanair's baggage handling department, starting on August 15 - with the prospect of delays and flight cancellations made worse by another strike

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6 d. ago ‘We are stranded in Paris after the Birmingham airport chaos

Gena Fraser, from Wolverhampton, said she was left ‘overwhelmed and stressed’ after her flight was cancelled

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7 d. ago Family fume as they're forced to stay in 'horrendous' hotel with 'cockroaches'

William White said he and his family were due to fly back from Majorca on Monday, but their easyJet flight was cancelled after a technical fault which left them needing further accommodation

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8 d. ago World Cup winner dies after paramedics fight to save his life in airport tragedy

Frank Mill who was part of Germany's World Cup winning team at Italia 90 has died after he suffered a heart attack at Milan Malpensa Airport in late May

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8 d. ago Storm Floris: All the rail, sea and air disruption as dozens of services cancelled

No trains are expected to run to or from Inverness station until Tuesday afternoon at the earliest, while the first Aberdeen-Heathrow flight was cancelled

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3 w. ago Flight cancellations are soaring this summer: These are the US airports suffering the most disruption

Airports on the East Coast are suffering worst cancellation rates, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium

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3 w. ago UK heatwaves could cause more than 5,000 deaths this summer as temperatures soar

The Centre for Ageing Better says it is extremely concerned about the significant heat health risk to older people this summer and the increasingly hotter summers of the future.

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3 w. ago How Britons coped with the scorching summer of 1976: Doctors advised beer and crisps to replace lost salt, bikinis were the norm and Trafalgar Square's fountain became a swimming pool

This summer's soaring temperatures are drawing comparisons with the hot weather in 1976. There were 15 consecutive days where the mercury hit 89.6F (32C).

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4 w. ago Tata’s Air India crash aftermath in numbers, from record insurance claim to flight cancellations

Total liability of over £350m is expected to make the Tata-owned airline’s Ahmedabad disaster the most expensive aviation insurance claim in India’s history

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last month Medical aircraft that crashed at Southend Airport 'is owned by Dutch IT millionaire' as police reveal the four people killed were all foreign nationals

The airport has been forced to cancel all flights and close 'until further notice' after Zeusch Aviation Flight SUZ1 crashed just before 4pm on Sunday.

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