Sir,
With regret, I must return your readers to the issue of Loganair / Flybe and its disgraceful treatment of island communities.
I am now sitting in Edinburgh airport with time on my hands following the announcement of a three hour delay to my flight back to Stornoway. I spent the first five minutes of this time rereading the triumphant profit announcement made by Loganair bosses earlier today.
Earlier this week, whilst waiting in the lounge at Stornoway airport for a flight delayed by two hours, I read that airfares for islanders are now being subsidised to the extent of 50% per ticket.
I think it is now time that Loganair informed island communities and its customers if any bonuses are being paid to senior management staff on the basis of its profit performance (as announced) and if those staff are planning on accepting any bonuses paid.
As a ticket buyer in a market monopoly situation, and as a tax payer, I feel that whilst so much misery and expense has been handed to its customers, Loganair should not pay a single penny in bonuses to senior staff, and the company has a moral duty of transparency on this issue to us all who have and are suffering at its hands.
Peter Urpeth
6a New Street
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Letter: Loganair bosses must not get bonuses
5 January 2016