Air Transat and Pilot Union Avert Strike With Tentative Deal

Canadian travel provider Transat AT Inc. reached a tentative agreement with the Air Line Pilots Association, preventing a disruptive strike one day before it could have started.

The Montreal-based company, which operates the airline Air Transat, said in a statement Tuesday on its website that operations would return to normal. The labor deal will be submitted to more than 750 pilots for a ratification vote in the coming days, after “more than 11 months of intensive negotiations,” according to ALPA.

“Our pilots have been frustrated flying under a decade-old, outdated collective agreement,” Bradley Small, chair of Air Transat’s ALPA ...