They let some admin / finance ppl go.

Admin in YWG has been growing for years. Admin in YTH continues to shrink.

I sounds like there are 8 or 9 getting layoff notices. The bottom of the seniority list so there is a mix of guys from Thompson and some down in Winnipeg. At a company town hall meeting last month one of the vice presidents talked about the next few ATRs to come into the fleet in the next year or so...

Memo came out a couple of weeks ago that all six Saabs had been sold, and would be replaced by a couple of ATR's and another jet. It was no secret that the Saabs were for sale on and off for the last few years, so it isn't a surprise to anyone except for the fact that they will be gone in the next f...

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AMO is parked now, missing an engine.

upanickel wrote:Anybody know what kind of pumps the Wilderness North and Calm Air guys are using?

There's a gorman rupp pump on the Calm Air ATR installation.

Video: http://sandylake.firstnation.ca/system/ ... I_1151.AVI

Images: http://sandylake.firstnation.ca/press-r ... plane-fire

Calm Air operated one of its Saab 340s for Bearskin for 8 months last year. Employees were told that they would be operating the aircraft for a period, and then two Saabs would be sold to Bearskin. I guess those plans changed. When that flying ended, the aircraft was never painted back to it's origi...

A video put together by one of the pilots.

http://youtu.be/pHcFcHRt4Pw

It's for a contract with the nunavut government for medical travel between YRT and YWG.

That american Dornier being leased and operated by another carrier to meet the contract while the company goes out and finds it's own jets.

Pretty good place to work. Schedule varies depending on the aircraft and base, but most everybody is home everynight. The schedule is bid based on seniority and a/c type and there is enough diversity among what people like that nobody really gets a bad schedule. Overnights generally get scooped up i...