A local airline which flew a British Columbia couple to Beaver Creek where they are accused of fraudulently obtaining the COVID-19 vaccination isn’t happy with the situation.

“Yes, we took them, but do you think they came into Whitehorse and the Yukon, and lied to the government, lied to the people in Beaver Creek, and didn’t lie to the charter people who flew them there?” Dave Sharp of Tintina Air asked in an interview with the Star this morning.

He was reluctant to say much at first, saying he was concerned about privacy issues.

“You can’t just call up Air Canada or Air North and ask them about their passengers,” Sharp said.

The Star had traced two flights leaving Whitehorse for Beaver Creek last Thursday to their respective airlines using internet resources.

The first was an Alkan Air flight transporting the COVID clinic team to Beaver Creek.

A second plane was traced through its call numbers to Tintina Air.

Strangely enough, Sharp said that wasn’t the plane Rod and Ekaterina Baker of Vancouver chartered for the flight.

The plane appearing on the flight record was chartered by a consulting team to head to Dawson City, he said, and was mistakenly associated with the Bakers’ flight.

It was another plane owned by Tintina that the Bakers used, Sharp said.

He said another media outlet erroneously picked up on the consulting flight – resulting in some bad publicity for the charter customers.

Sharp isn’t happy about that, and wanted to clear the record.

“We had no clue what they (the Bakers) were up to,” he said.

“People say they must have been very entitled to do what they did, but they didn’t present like that. If anything, it was a very boring flight.”

Sharp said the Tintina aircraft landed in Beaver Creek without any problems, then waited the “usual two hours” at the airport for the Bakers to return.

“That’s what we do for people who have meetings or whatever,” he said.

He wouldn’t say exactly how the couple deceived the airline, or if they used assumed identities.

Sharp simply reiterated that there was nothing out of the ordinary in the situation.

“Hey, come on, do you seriously think if we would have a pilot get into a plane with someone from Ontario if they said they hadn’t self-isolated or been tested?” he asked, perhaps giving away one ruse the couple used.

“No; it wouldn’t have happened. “We’re not the bad guys here.”