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Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Air traffic controllers are to escalate their industrial action in opposition to plans to centralise the service across the north. Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd (Hial), which operates 11 airports across the region, is seeking to move control operations to a remote centre in Inverness. A report released last week, and commissioned by Hial themselves, claims 48 jobs wil...

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 closin...

Air traffic control staff in Highlands and Islands to escalate industrial action By Alan Hendry Published: 16:57, 15 March 2021 Get the Courier and Groat sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the days newspaper Air traffic control tower at Wick John OGroats Airport. Picture: DGS Air traffic control staff in the Highlands and Islands are to step up their industrial action over controversial plans to centralise services in Inverness. The Prospect union warned tha...

BBC News Published image copyrightGetty Images image captionFlights at five airports are to be controlled remotely for a new hub under Hials plans Prospect members at Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd (Hial) are to take further action in a dispute over centralising some air traffic control. Hial has proposed controlling air traffic at five airports from a central hub. The union Prospect said the move would result in the loss of 50 jobs. Its members working in air traffic services are to "escal...

Remote control towers at minor airports would have negative impact, says study Sign up for our daily newsletter of the top stories in Courier country Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Plans for remote control towers at airports will have a “very significant negative impact” on some island communities, according to a new report. Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL) is planning to introduce remote in...

Plans to centralise air traffic control services have taken a decisive step forward after a study concluded that "the status quo is not sustainable".

March 5, 2021 at 1:01 pm Kirkwall Airport control tower. The Union representing air traffic controllers has called for a halt to the controversial remote towers project helmed by Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd. (HIAL). Prospect union has responded, this afternoon, Friday, to what it had branded a “damning” report examining the impact of the proposed Air Traffic Management Strategy (ATMS). The impact assessment for the ATMS has forecast “very significant negative impacts” on Orkney�...

  No more warm words: Ministers urged to seal the deal on Prestwick Airport sale and save taxpayers money No more warm words: Ministers urged to seal the deal on Prestwick Airport sale and save taxpayers money MINISTERS have been urged to stay clear of just warm words after they announced Prestwick Airport could be on the verge of being sold. Transport Secretary Michael Matheson has announced a preferred bidder - believed to be a European investor - has been chosen to buy the airport. It c...

Ministers plough £4m into protecting a lifeline Highlands airport and flights PLANS to have a Highlands airport and its lifeline flights protected from future closure has been supported with a £1m-a-year taxpayer fund. Calls have been made for there to be a public service obligation over the operation of Wick airport in Caithness in the wake of its "demise". It comes following the loss of flights to and from Edinburgh and Aberdeen raising concerns that the regions was being cut off....

Propect union declares industrial action over plan to centralise air traffic control in Inverness By Ian Duncan  |  Updated: 17:34, 21 December 2020 Get the Courier and Groat sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the days newspaper Air traffic control tower at Wick John OGroats airport. Picture: DGS Airport bosses in the Highlands have accused a union of sensationalising a move to centralise air traffic control after Prospect announced its members would strike...