News / Have your say on air services
ISLANDERS are being given the chance to have their say on air services to and from Shetland in a new survey.
The Scottish Council for Development & Industry (SCDI) is running the five-minute online survey in the hope of identifying areas of importance, giving users the chance to share their experiences and outline any changes they would like to see.
It comes at the end of a bad year for Loganair, the airline responsible for connections between Sumburgh and the Scottish mainland, which have been bedevilled by persistent technical faults and delays.
The survey, which can be found here, will be open until 3 January. SCDI is working in conjuncton with Shetland’s transport forum ZetTrans and its highlands counterpart Hitrans.
ZetTrans chairman Michael Stout – also the SIC’s environment and transport committee chairman – urged islanders to get involved with the survey.
“For those living in our island communities we all have experience either directly or indirectly of our air services and the impact they have, Stout said.
“I welcome this survey being undertaken and would hope that those who live, work, and visit here would all make their voices heard as part of this work.
“As councils we’re committed to working to strengthen our transport connectivity and I hope that this survey will provide some additional evidence to support our work for communities across the isles.”
SCDI regional director Fraser Grieve said the organisation was pleased to be working with islands transport partnerships in “identifying issues and opportunities with our air links”.
“Air connectivity is of huge importance to the economic success of the region, supporting every sector of the economy and sustaining jobs in some of our most peripheral communities,” he said.
Grieve added: “I hope that we receive a strong response from air service users and that as many as possible complete this survey at bit.ly/IslandsAirSurvey before it closes on 3 January.”
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