Future of shared cabin options unclear

Reports of families and elderly passengers having to sleep on the floor during NorthLink’s Shetland-Aberdeen route have led to concerns being raised about the passenger capacity on the “lifeline service.”

At the centre of the issue is shared passenger cabins (that is, those used outwith single households) which were banned at the beginning of the pandemic.

However, their continued withdrawal has prompted warnings of not only “acute cabin capacity shortages,” but also worries that they will be removed altogether, “under the cover of COVID.”

For the full story, see this week’s edition of The Orcadian.