Air Canada and the union representing 10,000 flight attendants resumed talks late Monday for the first time since the strike began over the weekend. The strike is affecting about 130,000 travelers a day at the peak of the summer travel season.

An ongoing labor dispute between Air Canada and its 10,000 flight attendants is wreaking havoc for half a million travelers and counting.

“If it means folks like me are going to jail, so be it. If it means our union being fined, so be it,” Hancock said.