PLANS to centralise air traffic control at Inverness with the potential loss of at least 17 well-paid full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs at Sumburgh Airport with a total gross salary of £670,000 will have a “very significant impact” on Shetland’s economy, an independent.
HIAL to proceed with air traffic scheme despite forecast job losses
March 5, 2021 at 11:36 am
HIAL is to proceed with its controversial Air Traffic Management Strategy, despite warnings of widespread job losses.
Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd. (HIAL) has confirmed that it will be proceeding with its controversial Air Traffic Management Strategy (ATMS), despite warnings of widespread job losses at airports across the region, including Kirkwall.
An impact assessment for the ATMS, published today, Friday, has forecast “very significant negative impacts” on Orkney’s economy, if current plans go ahead.
But HIAL’s managing director, Inglis Lyon, has said that the company has “always known” that there would be “impacts” resulting from such a scheme. He has endeavoured to continue with the ATMS, with the aim of delivering “viable solutions that will maintain lifeline services and essential connectivity for generations to come”.
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THE CHAIR of Highlands and Islands Airports Limitedâs (HIAL) board of directors has called on local employees to engage with them to find ways to mitigate the impact of job losses among island based air traffic controllers.
Lorna Jack was talking to
Shetland News after a damning impact assessment study told HIAL they had to do more to help staff who will be affected by the centralisation of air traffic control services in Inverness.
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Jack said she and her management colleagues had not been anticipating a different outcome.
And while the report by Reference Economic Consultants acknowledges that the controversial project of removing air traffic control from airports in Shetland, Orkney, the Western Isles, as well as Dundee and Inverness, to a remote surveillance centre at the outskirts of Inverness will have a net-positive impact on the whole area, it was very clear that individual island communities and the employees ba
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Report published on controversial Highland air traffic controller plan By Calum MacLeod
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Local politicians have warned that HIAL s proposals would downgrade the service at Wick John O Groats Airport.
North airport operator Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL) has published a report supporting its controversial plans to centralise its air traffic control system in Inverness.
The independent impact assessment was designed to examine the economic and community impact of HIAL s Air Traffic Management Strategy (ATMS) and, where relevant, undertake Island Community Impact Assessments (ICIAs).