As a pilot strike looms this week, Air Transat is set to begin cancelling flights on Monday.

Pilots working for Air Transat had voted overwhelmingly to give their union a strike mandate last week.

On Sunday, the union gave the company a 72-hour strike notice .

Pilots could walk off the job as soon as 3 a.m. Eastern standard time on Wednesday.

As a result, Air Transat says it “must immediately begin planning for the cancellation of its flights and the repatriation of passengers, crews, and aircraft to prevent them from being stranded abroad if the strike occurs.”

“The goal is to bring back everyone to their point of origin,” the airline said in a statement Sunday.

The airline will start cancelling flights as early as Monday, with a “complete suspension” of operations expected by

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