"Mr. Legault and Mr. Trudeau, help us!" That's the plea from the Air Transat Flight Attendant Union, representing more than 2,000 members.
The union is calling for a partial lifting of the sanitary restrictions imposed on the airline industry in Quebec and in Canada.
"The airline sector is without a doubt one of the most restricted by federal public health regulations. Our members and passengers must be vaccinated, PCR tests are required before boarding a flight and a test is required upon arrival in Canada," says Dominic Levasseur, president of Air Transat Flight Attendant Union.
These measures are extremely costly for travellers as well as for the government. If these measures are not eased out soon, hundreds of jobs are at risk in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. The government's management of our borders must be strongly challenged,"
The union says that on top of the restrictions, hundreds of millions of dollars of public money are being granted to private testing companies when these funds could be allocated to the healthcare system and to the airline and tourism sector, which are in desperate need.
"We ask our governments to act quickly to reduce sanitary restrictions at our borders. These excessive measures are strangling Canadian companies like Air Transat! Our demands are simple, we must facilitate the relaunch of our industry," Levasseur added.
To this day, more than 60% of Air Transat flight attendants are still laid off.
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