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.

Air Canada's unionized flight attendants reached an agreement with the country's largest carrier on Tuesday, ending the first strike by its cabin crew in 40 years that had upended travel plans for hundreds of thousands of passengers.

Canadian regulators order union leaders to end Air Canada's work stoppage on Monday, while employees remain defiant.

Air Canada and a union representing the airline’s flight attendants have come to a tentative agreement, ending a days-long strike that canceled thousands of flights and stranded passengers.

The airline said that it would gradually restart operations Tuesday but that a return to "full restoration may require a week or more."

Air Canada said it will gradually restart operations after reaching an agreement early on Tuesday with the union for 10,000 flight attendants to end a strike that disrupted the travel plans of hundreds of thousands of travelers.

Air Canada says it plans to announce a new "exceptional policy" in which the company will cover transportation expenses incurred by customers while getting to their destinations during the recent work stoppage.