Gabor Lukacs WestJet Flair Airlines Gabor Lukacs

WestJet strike: Why you may want to think twice before changing a flight

Reading now: 883
globalnews.ca

WestJet says it is offering “additional flexibility” to air travellers ahead of the potential strike action by the airline’s pilots to provide “peace of mind.”But a consumer advocate is cautioning passengers about accepting the offer.The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), which represents approximately 1,600 flight crew at WestJet and its subsidiary Swoop, issued a 72-hour strike notice Monday to the airline’s management and the federal government.

The strike action will begin at 3 a.m. Eastern (1 a.m. Mountain) on Friday unless a deal is reached, the union said.With the strike looming, WestJet issued its own statement on Tuesday offering options to passengers looking to change or cancel their flights or WestJet Vacations if booked between May 15 and May 21, applied to all potential fares.Among the options are a $0 one-time fee waiver offered for changes or cancellations.For those who decide to change their destination, the airline says the customer would pay any difference in fares, but a refund would be made if customers decided to cancel the booking altogether.But Air Passenger Rights president Gabor Lukacs warns these offers may not be as beneficial compared to what passengers could receive and they should be aware of what rights they already have.“It’s really a way of trying to convince passengers to not avail themselves of their rights.

Read more on globalnews.ca
The website covid-19.rehab is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.

Related News

Donald Trump - Why Trump’s ‘gross mishandling’ of classified info should alarm U.S. allies - globalnews.ca - Usa - Britain - Australia - state Florida - Canada - New Zealand
globalnews.ca
43%
299
Why Trump’s ‘gross mishandling’ of classified info should alarm U.S. allies
Donald Trump found himself looking at something he had no clearance to see.Spilled on the floor of a storage room at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and estate — a room easily accessible from the pool patio, and near a liquor supply closet and other high-traffic areas — were allegedly the contents of several boxes of documents Trump had brought to Florida from Washington at the end of his presidency.The boxes had been moved into the storage room from other parts of the club, including a ballroom and bathroom, at Trump’s direction the previous summer, according to a federal indictment that was unsealed Friday.That indictment says one of the documents on the floor was marked “SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY” — a classification marking that indicated the information could only be viewed by intelligence agencies within the Five Eyes alliance of Canada, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.The aide, Walt Nauta, took two pictures of the mess with his phone and texted another employee of Trump, with the Five Eyes-only document in full view, the indictment states.“I opened the door and found this…” Nauta is quoted as having texted.“Oh no oh no,” the employee texted back.Trump’s alleged withholding of that document is one of the 37 federal criminal charges he’s now facing, accusing him of illegally retaining classified government documents after leaving the White House and then conspiring to obstruct a federal probe of the matter.Nauta, who worked for Trump at the White House and Mar-a-Lago, faces six counts in the case for allegedly helping to hide some of the sought-after materials and making false statements to investigators.The indictment presents a series of stunning examples of how Trump appears to have handled
DMCA