![Northern Isles MP Alistair Carmichael.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/170601_Alistair_Carmichael-e1548150697253-240x140.jpg)
Carmichael leads parliament debate on local aviation concerns
![Northern Isles MP Alistair Carmichael.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/170601_Alistair_Carmichael-e1548150697253-240x140.jpg)
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![HIAL employs 55 air traffic controllers.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/150929_Sumburgh_airport_tower-240x140.jpg)
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![HIAL employs 55 air traffic controllers.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/150929_Sumburgh_airport_tower-240x140.jpg)
![HIAL employs 55 air traffic controllers.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/150929_Sumburgh_airport_tower-240x140.jpg)
![HIAL employs 55 air traffic controllers.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/150929_Sumburgh_airport_tower-240x140.jpg)
![A group of planes parked on a tarmac.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/130716_planes_stacked_up_at_kirkwall_airport_photo_gary_robinson-240x140.jpg)
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![Sumburgh Airport. Photo: Mark Berry](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Sumburgh_airport_MarkBerry_1-240x140.jpg)
![Sumburgh Airport is one of 11 airports under HIAL's wing.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/sumburgh_airport_1_3-240x140.jpg)
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![The Sumburgh Airport car park. Photo: Hans J Marter/Shetland News](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/180614_Sumburgh1_1-240x140.jpg)
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![Sumburgh Airport. Photo: HIAL](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/sumburgh_airport_1_1-240x140.jpg)
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![A Loganair Saab 340.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/170127_Loganair_Saab_340-240x140.jpg)
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![A group of planes parked on a tarmac.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/130716_planes_stacked_up_at_kirkwall_airport_photo_gary_robinson-240x140.jpg)
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![Loganair says it has 70 per cent of market share on the routes to Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Photo: Mark Berry](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/171010_Loganair_MarkBerry-e1540573347963-240x140.jpg)
![The Sumburgh Airport control tower.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/150929_Sumburgh_airport_tower-240x140.jpg)
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![HIAL chairwoman Lorna Jack. Photo courtesy of BBC Radio Shetland.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/180423_HIAL_chairwoman_Lorna_Jack_BBC-240x140.jpg)
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![The Sumburgh Airport car park. Photo: Hans J Marter/Shetland News](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/180614_Sumburgh1_1-240x140.jpg)
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