Tingwall Runway Works Set to Ground Flights for May

Tingwall Runway Works Set to Ground Flights for May

Tingwall Airport will close to all flights this May as major resurfacing work begins on its runway and apron. The project is scheduled to start on Monday 5 May and will run until Friday 30 May, grounding all inter-island flights during that period. Flights usually operated from Tingwall will be temporarily relocated to Sumburgh Airport, with services set to resume from Tingwall on Monday 2 June. Airtask, which runs the inter-island air services,…

Work to begin on £1.3m Tingwall Airport project

WORK is to get underway on a £1.3 million project to resurface the runway and apron at Shetland’s Tingwall Airport. Shetland Islands Council said the work is expected to take around four weeks and will be carried out by the local authority’s roads service team – with some additional plant being hired for the work. The project will place a ‘heavy demand’ on the council-run Scord Quarry to supply the estimated 3,500 tonnes of asphalt that will be …