Just another manic Monday at CalMac
It was a nightmare start of the week for CalMac and its passengers, as ferry overhauls and breakdowns led to cancellations across the network
It was a nightmare start of the week for CalMac and its passengers, as ferry overhauls and breakdowns led to cancellations across the network
It’s been a rough season for CalMac, its crew, and its passengers.
Ferry disruption ‘intolerable’, says Western Isles’ SNP MSP: ‘The low point was reached when people started telling me that they were unable to visit even very ill relatives.’
CalMac’s ‘hard working’ and ‘stressed’ staff are facing ‘anger’ and ‘abuse’ from passengers, let down by the Scottish Government, MSPs heard in a recent Holyrood debate
Rail services to Oban, Fort William, and Mallaig from Glasgow disrupted by 4ft high floods that turned roads into rivers and trapped people in their homes
So far council-run ferry services have continued to operate uninterrupted despite predictable fluctuations in passenger levels but coronavirus could have potential effects.
Gusts up to 80mph are expected in the Outer Hebrides on Friday.
Repairs to two CalMac vessels serving Arran are disrupting services for Islay and Colonsay.
Western Isles tourism businesses lose ‘£6 million’ due to ferry ‘unreliability’, and the figure is still climbing
Oban ferry terminal’s linkspan failed again on Friday, causing the Barra ferry to drop off passengers 166 miles away on Skye.