Air Canada says it plans to resume flights on Sunday after the Canadian government intervened and forced the airline and its striking flight attendants back to work and into arbitration.

Air Canada will begin resuming operations on Sunday after the government moved to end a strike by more than 10,000 flight attendants that had led to hundreds of cancellations.

Air Canada plans to resume flights later on Sunday, a day after the government issued a directive to end a cabin crew strike that caused the suspension of around 700 daily flights, stranding more than 100,