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Originally Posted by Bigtime
Air Canada has announced all MAX 8 flights cancelled for the next 3 weeks.
We've got 3 of the AC birds here at YYC, unless they choose to ferry them somewhere else.
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Will be interesting to see what happens with the pilot group at AC if the grounding goes on longer than that. It will hurt AC financially (to pay them not to fly) or hurt the pilots (if their contract does not have some sort of provision for a situation like this). Short term Air Canada could swallow it (the pilots not so much) but if it goes longer it will get very interesting. I am guessing that many/most of AC's Max pilots may no longer type qualified?
WestJet won't suffer from that issue as it's a common type rating between the Max and the NG (I think) so other than redistributing some flying it could be simpler. Actually now that I think about it I would imagine April's bids/schedule is probably set or close to it so it will be messy.
Point being is WestJet pilots still have aircraft they can fly, Air Canada pilots may not.