Efforts to end the current pay dispute between air traffic controllers and Hial have progressed after the Prospect Union confirmed no further strike action will take place while it consults its members on a revised pay offer.
Travellers to and from the Western Isles were left stranded today as the ongoing dispute over the rate of pay offered to air traffic controllers entered a third day of snap strikes.
Holiday-makers were stranded in the north yesterday as a second day of snap strikes took place in an ongoing row over air traffic controllers' pay.
Inverness Airport was shut yesterday, as three days of air traffic controller strikes began in a protracted dispute over pay.
Industrial action by air traffic controllers has been suspended while they are balloted on a new pay offer.
Loganair has announced it is to reduce services for the next round of strike action by air traffic controllers at Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL).
A planned day of strike action taking place today must concentrate the minds of Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL) and trade unions.
The UK's aviation regulator has stepped in after a plane took off from an island airport after air traffic controllers had gone home.
Following discussions between Hial and the Prospect union yesterday, proposed action to strike later this month has been suspended by air traffic controllers amid a current pay dispute.
A row between air traffic controllers and Highlands and Islands Airports (HIAL) has been referred to the UK government after negotiations yesterday failed to bring a meaningful outcome.
The prospect of a strike at Dounreay has increased after the latest pay talks between unions and management at the nuclear site broke down.
Workers at Dounreay are to begin balloting for industrial action amid an ongoing pay dispute.
Work on cutting up part of the nuclear reactor infrastructure at Dounreay in Caithness got under way yesterday as strike action threatened to disrupt decommissioning of the site.