WestJet strike: Airline and union negotiate whereas pissed off travellers scramble

Travellers stranded in Calgary

I’m Ina Sidhu, a enterprise reporter based mostly in Calgary, the place stranded passengers on the worldwide terminal at YYC say they only wish to get residence.

Just steps away from the place an enormous crowd of flight attendants is picketing, Zach Sherrard is holding his personal signal with the message: “I just wanna go home.”

He’s making an attempt to get residence to Denver. He left St. John’s yesterday and hasn’t slept.

So he is turning to his dad.

“Luckily my dad’s retired and can actually drive up from Colorado to get me because that’s faster than a flight right now.”

“He’ll get here sometime tomorrow and I’ll get back sometime Tuesday. The best flight I could have gotten would have been Tuesday night with an eight-hour layover in Dallas,” he stated. 

Sherrard says fortunately his boss has been understanding that he’ll miss work tomorrow.

He says even by the frustration of his day, he helps the flight attendants.

David Brittain and his spouse stay in Phoenix, Ariz. 

They simply received off an Alaska cruise in Vancouver and had been connecting by Calgary.

Brittain says they rebooked, however that flight was additionally cancelled. 

“I’m $3,500 deep into this,” he stated. “We didn’t hear anything about it while we were on the ship.”

Eric Bolton is making an attempt to get residence to South Carolina.

He was rebooked for tomorrow, however that flight may get cancelled, too.

Bolton says he is feeling helpless.

“Pretty exacerbated and exhausted. We’ve just been getting the runaround all day. We don’t blame the ticketing agents or anything. They’re working with what they’ve got, but it seems like everyone’s been left in the lurch and given really no options. So people are kind of waiting around.”