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(Bloomberg) -- 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.

Flights will resume Sunday evening with a gradual ramp-up over the coming days, the Montreal-based airline said in a statement. Still, it expects to take several days before operations return to normal.

The Canada Industrial Relations Board has directed Air Canada to resume airline operations and for all Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge flight attendants to return to work by 2:00 p.m. in Montreal, according to the statement early Sunday. The move came after Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu directed the independent CIRB to order a resumption of operations and to impose binding arbitration to resolve a standoff over contract negotiations.

Some 10,500 flight attendants walked off the job early Saturday after pay talks between the union and the country’s biggest airline fell through. That led Air Canada to ground hundreds of flights and lock out flight attendants, disrupting some 130,000 passengers a day during the summer holiday season.