Have your say on island air services
Islanders are being encouraged to take an online questionnaire aimed at indentifying what’s important for an air service.
READ FULL STORYIslanders are being encouraged to take an online questionnaire aimed at indentifying what’s important for an air service.
READ FULL STORYThe managing director of ferry operators Serco NorthLink has claimed that travel statistics disprove the claim of lack of capacity on the two passenger ferries…
READ FULL STORYTransport partnership ZetTrans has allayed fears from pensioners using shopping bus services in the isles.
READ FULL STORYShetland’s bus network will be retained, and in some cases increased, after five-year contracts for the local network of public and school bus services were…
READ FULL STORYCommunities could pull in funding and take responsibility for their own transport – according to a new plan up for discussion this week.
READ FULL STORYZetTrans and Shetland Islands Council will next week put their proposed public and school bus network out to tender as part of a “radical change”
READ FULL STORYProposals aimed at heralding an end to council control over inter-island ferry services are due for debate by councillors.
READ FULL STORYAirlines Flybe and Loganair have been criticised for “ripping off” islanders by charging a flat £5 transaction fee for using a credit card to book
READ FULL STORYThe council will strongly oppose an attempt by NorthLink to introduce extra daytime sailings between Shetland and Orkney during the summer, as it would have
READ FULL STORYImprovements to the way Shetland’s bus services are run could soon be introduced amid concerns passengers in rural areas are facing a shortfall in transport…
READ FULL STORYBy JOHN ROBERTSON Plans for Shetland to build a dual-purpose cargo and passenger ship to improve NorthLink’s service and start a summer service to Norway…
READ FULL STORYA government review of Scotland’s ferry services has been delayed by four months due to an ongoing European Commission probe into subsidies to NorthLink and…
READ FULL STORYPlans for Shetland to build a dual-purpose cargo and passenger ship to improve NorthLink’s service and start a summer service to Norway have won enthusiastic…
READ FULL STORYBy JOHN ROBERTSON THE DAYS of lightweight low-floored buses could be numbered in Shetland amid renewed concerns over safety in high winds and lack of…
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