Ethan Cairns

Ethan Cairns is a photographer whose work has been featured in recent news coverage of the WestJet flight attendant strike. His photographs, specifically one taken at Vancouver International Airport on Sunday, August 2, 2026, illustrate the impact of the strike on air travel. The images show striking flight attendants and frustrated travelers attempting to navigate cancelled flights. Cairns's work provides visual documentation of the disruption caused by the labor dispute, which led to a brief strike that snarled traffic. The tentative deal reached between WestJet and its flight attendants has since resolved the immediate crisis, but Cairns's photographs remain relevant as a record of the event and its consequences for passengers and the airline.