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Air traffic control staff to escalate industrial action over remote towers plan
Updated: March 15, 2021, 6:26 pm
There are plans for remote control towers at some airports including Kirkwall Airport (Danny Lawson/PA)
Air traffic control (ATC) workers are to escalate industrial action over plans to introduce remote airport control towers at Highlands and Islands Airports (HIAL).
Since December, employees with the Prospect union have been refusing to engage with the proposals which include closing workspaces, centralising operations to Inverness and downgrading airports.
But the action will now include staff working to rosters, a ban on overtime, refusing shift extensions (except for search and rescue) and refusing to train new controllers.
Updated: March 8, 2021, 5:27 pm
There are plans for remote control towers at some airports (Danny Lawson/PA)
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Councillors have urged the Scottish Government to show it is “listening to the islands” after a report found plans for remote airport control towers will have a negative impact on some communities.
Western Isles Council said the latest report showed “in black and white” that the plans will cost jobs and damage island economies.
Listen to islanders over remote airport control tower plans, demand councillors
Updated: March 8, 2021, 5:27 pm
There are plans for remote control towers at some airports (Danny Lawson/PA)
Councillors have urged the Scottish Government to show it is “listening to the islands” after a report found plans for remote airport control towers will have a negative impact on some communities.
Western Isles Council said the latest report showed “in black and white” that the plans will cost jobs and damage island economies.
Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL) is planning to introduce remote integrated air traffic control services for five airports: Inverness, Dundee, Stornoway, Kirkwall and Sumburgh.