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Rob Kokonis

Rob Kokonis

President & Managing Director of AirTrav Inc., a Toronto-based aviation advisory firm, and a leading aviation industry commentator featured on BBC, Bloomberg, BNN, CNBC, and CTV.

Jul 30, 2026

NinaHOST
0:51
They may be controversial, but I want to hear them.
0:54
For sure.
0:55
And I wish we could be meeting under different circumstances in the middle of a Canadian summer.
1:00
We should all be out there doing great things with our tourism industry, right? But here we are again, as you just said.
1:08
So the crux of the matter comes down to, quote unquote, unpaid time for ground functions, whether there's a the time to prepare an aircraft for departure, ground delays, whatever it might be.
1:22
And WestJet's flight attendants, organized under CUPE, maintained they put in, on average, about 35 hours of unpaid work per month.
1:31
You have to go back to about 2000, the negotiation of the last contract around 2021.
NinaHOST
4:00
Um, how, how do we, how do we square that with the fact that they are struggling financially?

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