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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