{"id":5751,"date":"2026-08-03T08:39:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=5751"},"modified":"2026-08-03T08:39:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:39:02","slug":"westjet-will-face-blowback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2026\/08\/03\/westjet-will-face-blowback\/","title":{"rendered":"WestJet Will Face Blowback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I suspect that WestJet and its employees will suffer <em>huge<\/em> negative consequences as a result of their unnecessary disruption of the lives of thousands of Canadians over an issue that they were able to resolve in just 24 hours of real negotiation. Neither I nor (so far as I am aware) anyone I know had our holiday travels disrupted, and yet I still feel a sense of outrage (despite having had, in my time, to make similarly disruptive decisions affecting the lives of others).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/business\/newsalert-westjet-cupe-reach-tentative-agreement-ending-operational-disruptions\/article_9fc12c86-f661-5a0d-b7d5-622e3108671d.html?source=newsletter&amp;utm_source=ts_nl&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_email=9C72B32CE124E1C6C09B2638C7132F76&amp;utm_campaign=bn_40473\">WestJet and CUPE reach tentative agreement, ending job action, flight disruptions<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect that WestJet and its employees will suffer huge negative consequences as a result of their unnecessary disruption of the lives of thousands of Canadians over an issue that they were able to resolve in just 24 hours of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2026\/08\/03\/westjet-will-face-blowback\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5753,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751\/revisions\/5753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}