We also asked the Tropic Air president about all those employees that they had to lay off earlier this year. He said that the hope is that the company's finances will rebound enough that they may be able to rehire those who have not moved on:
John Greif - President, Tropic Air
"Well I don't think its a secret that we had to fire a third of our employees. We had 316 employees and we had to fire 120 and it made me physically ill. I couldn't come to work for a few weeks because these people are not just my employees, they're literally figuratively my family. It was very difficult and we are bringing them back as quickly as we can. From the worst that it got we probably got back a dozen employees, so hopefully we are able to bring all or most of them back if they haven't moved on."
