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Ripple effect

2. Air Canada has asked the Canada Industrial Relations Board to intervene in what the airline perceives to be “industrial action to disrupt our operations,” following mass delays and flight cancellations during one of the busiest air travel weekends of the year.

A statement from Air Canada spokesperson Peter Fitzpatrick attributed the disruptions to factors such as foggy weather and a fire on the airfield of Toronto’s Pearson Airport. But he also blamed “a higher-than-usual” amount of “pilot bookoffs” — an apparent reference to reports on Saturday that several pilots had called in sick that morning.

“While Air Canada supports the right of its employees to book off when they are unwell or otherwise unfit to work, we cannot condone such activities as part of industrial action to disrupt our operations and we have asked the CIRB to intervene,” the airline said in a statement on Sunday. “Customers should be reassured that the vast majority of Air Canada employees are hard at work to get them safely to destination.‬”

Passengers using Toronto’s Pearson airport on Sunday were experiencing a second day of flight delays and cancellations, but officials said that by the afternoon, fog that slowed operations had lifted and a crippled runway had reopened.

Air Canada had reported a “significant reduction in runway operations” on Sunday because of the weather and a small fire on the airfield that damaged an underground electrical maintenance system and forced the shutdown of one of the runways....