Service chaos again?
After a long period with between 95% and 98% of sailings on time, Calmac has dipped in the last 5 days to between 84% and 88%.
This puts it, for the moment, with Ryanair on around 88% this year but still better that Brittany Ferries with 1 out of 8 cancelled and another late today.
Returning to the Herald headlining ferries again and again, story.
The MV Loch Frisa, bottom, is only one of 2 ferries to Mull and the other has been making around 20 sailings every day, on time, for some time now.
Similarly there are two ferries to Islay. The MV Finlaggan, top, which has a ‘ongoing technical problem’ was built in Poland only 13 years ago. Colonsay, pop 124, may have services ‘disrupted’ but not cancelled.
Finally the MV Hebridean Isles remains replaced by the MV Alfred ‘costing the taxpayer £1m a month.’ The CalMac service with 34 ferries sailing to 23 islands and routes in the Clyde is already subsidised at £185 million per year.
Sources:
https://www.calmac.co.uk/calmac-performance-data-browser?date=01%2F07%2F2023
https://corporate.ryanair.com/facts-figures/our-punctuality/
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
As commented by Gordon Ross following conversations with folk on the islands, BBC Scotland is getting the blame for the slump in tourism due to the relentless propaganda over ferries.
There will be other factors in play, but right now Scotland’s media and opposition politicians capitalising on the propaganda appear to be doing themselves no favours…
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BBC SCOTLAND THE CRIMINAL COMMENTATORS
SPREADING FEAR TO THE CITIZENS OF SCOTLAND
AND ALL FOR POLITICAL FAVOUR
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A wee change from ferries. Seems flights from Scotland are not all they should be. I saw Kezia Dugdale had a Tweet the other day on this subject when her flight to London was cancelled and there were no other flights to be had.
https://travelweekly.co.uk/news/air/mps-raise-concerns-over-costs-and-disruption-to-scottish-flights
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Like this.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23634276.couple-told-fly-via-spain-get-bristol-glasgow/?fbclid=IwAR1u3E_u-_CPcefic-hQc0URjolac-tNyG0-y_K6wXEoohEg-jAY9Xe3fSU
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On BBC1 News mid-day , James Cook ended his piece on King Charles III’s Coronation celebrations in Scotland, by saying how “…the ceremony was a tightrope for the Royal Family, for King Charles himself, to try to reflect the ancient nature of Scotland as a Kingdom, but not turning this into a second coronation, and ensuring that this is not in fact referencing Scotland as a Kingdom, because since the Act of Union in 1707… it isn’t!”
Ditto for England?
(Unless England renamed itself Great Britain in the very, very small print?)
https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/legislativescrutiny/act-of-union-1707/
“The Acts of Union, passed by the English and Scottish Parliaments in 1707, led to the creation of a united kingdom to be called “Great Britain” on 1 May of that year. The UK Parliament met for the first time in October 1707.”
This is also worth a read..
https://www.lawscot.org.uk/members/journal/issues/vol-52-issue-06/the-union-and-the-law/
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BA London flight slots are subsidised by UK Gov, London Transport is subsidised. Scotland has to pay a share for it. Heathrow BA based. Terminal 4 & 5? Spanish company.
The Scottish Gov has increased flights from Scotland. To Dubai hub and China. Salmon and whisky exports. More foreign students and visitors.
Anywhere but Heathrow. Overnight stays etc. make it more expensive. Although price of flights can be cheaper. Not worth the disruption. Edinburgh airport getting new scanners for liquids, to speed things up.
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4 ferries are being built. Saving fuel etc. Coming soon. An increase of tourism because of COVID and better weather.
There were one ferry built a year. The average even before the SNP Scottish Gov. The unionists built the same. Now 4 are in production. A total increase. 150%.
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