Nov 4 (Reuters) - Air Canada ( ACDVF ) reported a lower

third-quarter profit on Tuesday, hit by a slump in U.S.

passenger traffic and a labor disruption that forced it to

cancel thousands of flights.

Canada's largest carrier reported an adjusted profit of

C$223 million ($159 million) or 75 Canadian cents per share for

the quarter, compared with C$969 million, or C$2.57 per share, a

year earlier.

($1 = 1.4024 Canadian dollars)

(Reporting by Shivansh Tiwary and Anshuman Tripathy in

Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)