Ferry firm defers decision on island's Sunday service
THE ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne (CalMac) has deferred a decision on possible Sunday sailings to Lewis.
The CalMac board will consider "numerous unsolicited requests" for a seven-day service, along with demands to keep the status quo, at its meeting in Fort William today.
However, the company says it will not be taking any decision on these requests, pending clarification of the Scottish Government's pilot study on road equivalent tariff (RET). In August, the administration announced it would conduct a trial RET scheme which bases the cost of travelling to an island by ferry on the equivalent distance by road.
Peter Timms, the chairman of CalMac, said: "The current study of a RET pilot scheme for the Western Isles does not allow us to make a final decision before the study findings are published and the implications have been considered."
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