Meanwhile Alistair Carmichael is due to meet the UK Government’s Levelling Up secretary today – with fixed links on the agenda
Airline apology after passengers complain about communication at airports
Green councillor Alex Armitage believes chargers on the overnight sailing would be a good move – but there are concerns it would be counter-intuitive
HIAL has meanwhile apologised to Mr Skinner
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SIC leader Emma Macdonald said the local authority had a ‘constructive meeting’ with the transport minister
From Monday the evening flight from Aberdeen will be ‘de-linked’ from Manchester services – a repeated source of delays
The council’s transport chair says the SIC does ‘not have any available staff who are appropriately qualified to stand in for sick colleagues’ at the moment
But NorthLink declined to respond to Stewart Hay’s comments
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Traffic volumes at the junction have risen on average two percent every year
Transport partnership ZetTrans said any fare increases resulting from the transition would ‘exacerbate already existing inequalities’
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‘Utterly unacceptable’: ‘Grim’ scenes on busy ferry as passengers ‘compete for floor space’ to sleep
Transport Scotland said the boat was busier than usual due to flight cancellations – and ‘seats were available for each of the 585 passengers on board the vessel’
North Isles councillor Ryan Thomson, from Unst, said it was a “dark day” for the area
‘We still have quite a way to go in getting services to where we all want them to be’, Jonathan Hinkles adds
