Air Canada flights will resume on Saturday evening, as a strike by its 10,000 cabin crew came to an end. The Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) told the airline's staff to return to work and said that an expired collective agreement would be extended until a new one was agreed.

The strike at Canada’s largest airline is affecting about 130,000 travellers per day during the peak summer travel.

Air Canada withdrew its financial targets for the year as a strike by flight attendants entered its third day, forcing the country’s largest airline to cancel about 500,000 flights.