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Updated: April 27, 2021, 9:26 am © SYSTEM Jobs are on the line at Dundee Airport. Eleven high value jobs at Dundee Airport hang in the balance amid plans by the operator to move air traffic controllers to Inverness. Hial (Highland and Island Airports Limited) is planning to move all its air traffic controller posts to Inverness — forcing those in Dundee to relocate if they wish to keep their current job. Hial’s air traffic controllers earn between £58,000 and £73,000 a year. Unions claim the plans also raise safety concerns. Controllers would use remote tower technology to oversee diff...

  Article Air traffic control staff step up industrial action at Highlands and Islands Airports Limited over remote towers plans to centralise operations By Ian Duncan Published: 21:30, 16 March 2021 Get the Northern Times sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper Inverness Airport. Prospect union members are planning to increase their industrial action at Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL) over the remote towers plan to centralise air traffic control operations in Inverness. The union, which represents air traffic control staff and...

  Article Air traffic control staff step up industrial action at Highlands and Islands Airports Limited over remote towers plans to centralise operations in Inverness By Ian Duncan  |  Updated: 11:43, 16 March 2021 Get the Inverness Courier sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper Inverness Airport. Prospect union members are planning to increase their industrial action at Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL) over the remote towers plan to centralise air traffic control operations in Inverness. The union, which represents air traff...

HIAL has proposed controlling air traffic at five airports from a central hub. The Prospect union, which has said that the long-term future of lifeline services is at risk through the plans said some members were unwilling to relocate, meaning nearly 50 could lose their jobs. The union says HIAL will need to recruit a similar number in Inverness at very significant expense to the taxpayer. The escalation of industrial action will include: work to rosters, an overtime ban and a refusal of extended hours except for search and rescue, emergency and medical flights. It also involves a r...

http://shet.news/7ezn3 Copied! AIR traffic controllers at airports in the Highlands and Islands are to escalate their industrial action over plans to centralise air traffic control in Inverness. The Prospect union said the escalation of industrial action will include work to rosters, an overtime ban and refusal of extensions except for search and rescue, emergency and medical flights. 12 of 14Adverts This action is in addition to the continuous action short of a strike notified on the 21 December, which started on 4 January and consists of a refusal to engage with the proposals. The go...