Nunavut airline struggles with weather, staffing changes – Nunatsiaq News
July 13, 2015
“It’s not been a great week for travel into Iqaluit, that’s for sure”
Bad weather, runway construction and staffing changes all added up to a challenging few days for First Air last week.
But the airline’s vice president of commercial affairs, Bert van der Stege, said late Friday afternoon, July 10, that the company is taking it all in stride.
He confirmed that 20 First Air staff in the central Arctic were laid off recently as a result of the new codeshare agreements with Calm Air and Canadian North.
But all those employees, in Winnipeg and Rankin Inlet, were offered jobs with First Air in other locations or local positions with the codeshare partner airlines, he said. And only two declined to take those job offers.
