MONTREAL — In a white, windowless room, negotiators for Air Transat pilots and their employer on Tuesday hammered out the final details of a deal that had been hung up for days on the question of wages.

The tentative agreement announced that evening averted a costly work stoppage for Transat A.T. Inc., which owns the struggling leisure airline, and a major disruption for thousands more travellers on the cusp of the holiday rush.

Eighteen flights had already been cancelled in a precautionary wind-down ahead of a Wednesday morning strike deadline from the Air Line Pilots Association, which represents Air Transat’s 750 aviators.

Virtually all of the “non-monetary” issues such as scheduling and health protections had been sewn up for days, said Transat spokeswoman Andréan Gagné. All that re

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