The story
The airline was established and started charter operations in 1989 as Air Baffin. Scheduled services were inaugurated in May 1992. It was renamed to Air Nunavut in 1996. In February 1998, Transport Canada temporarily suspended Air Nunavut's services due to flaws on its aircraft maintenance procedures following numerous incidents involving its fleet throughout the 90s, and specifically an incident involving its Piper PA 31-350 a month prior.
In April 2018, Air Nunavut was given a warning by the Canadian Transportation Agency due to contraventions of the Canada Transportation Act and Air Transportation Regulations based on investigations done in previous February. In 2019, an aircraft temporarily stopping at Clyde River Airport for refueling in a charter flight from Qaanaaq in Greenland to Iqaluit brought Air Nunavut to a penalty by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) after letting its passengers out for a bathroom break in the airport, thus being considered as an immigration breach; the airport was alleged to be barely staffed at the time other than airport regulators, but was noticed by a CBSA staff. Air Nunavut argued that the "breach" was necessary for the passengers' dignity and safety, and fought back against the penalty as of 2022.
From Wikipedia’s article on Air Nunavut, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3