Labrador MHAs Lisa Dempster and Perry Trimper (centre) attended an announcement regarding the Liberals’ new Labrador Air Access Pilot Program at the airport in Happy Valley-Goose Bay on Aug. 28. The provincial government’s new pilot program intended to make air travel more affordable for Labrador residents “doesn’t go far enough to address the needs of Labrador Inuit communities,” Nunatsiavut Government First Minister Melva Williams said in a news release Tuesday. The Labrador Air Access Pilot Program, announced by the Liberals on Aug. 28, will subsidize 175 airline tickets per week via an online form, with an annual limit of two round trips per person. Nunatsiavut says the government has not clarified how many of the 175 weekly tickets will be designated for Labrador’s five remote Inuit communities. “This absence of transparency raises serious concerns about the program’s true intent and whether it will meaningfully serve the needs of Labrador Inuit,” Williams said.