Commercial flights have resumed in Labrador West after several were canceled because of a situation regarding the lack of firefighting and crash rescue services for larger aircraft.

The former MHA for the region, Jordan Brown, dealt with that issue many times during his two terms in office. Now the mayor of Labrador City, Brown told the Tim Powers Show on VOCM yesterday that one thing led to another at the federal level with the classification of the airport.

Liberal MP Phil Earle first raised the issue in a post to social media earlier in the week, but said in the same breath that he expected to see a resolution in a relatively short period of time.

Brown says his is a region which cannot survive without air services.

He says the changes implemented will be “slow-rolled” allowing the local firefighting team more time to get up to “what they need to be so the certification can properly change, and we’ll actually have air fast rescue again.”