Loganair flights between HIAL airports are affected – but one MSP has criticised the move
HIAL to submit new business case to government as more talks planned on pay dispute
Money has also gone to a project to deliver a four to five tonne load from Aberdeen to Orkney and Shetland on a hydrogen powered vessel
Moraig Lyall said fixed links ‘hit the button not just financially, but economically, socially and environmentally’
Council leader Emma Macdonald said it is ‘no exaggeration to say that this funding from the UK Government has saved Fair Isle as an inhabited island’
FlyHighland entrepreneur Thomas Eccles said ‘it is not going to be easy – but it is achievable’
Meanwhile a second day of strike action has closed Sumburgh Airport again today
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The northbound ferry from Aberdeen will stop off in Kirkwall to pick up SSE engineers to help with with restoring Shetland’s power supplies
