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Many air routes in Scotland require government subsidies to ensure continued operation at manageable passenger costs

Next contract to operate the Scottish Government-supported air routes from Glasgow to Barra, Tiree and Campbeltown will give local communities more control over the services.

Cheaper airfares on the Transport Scotland subsidised air services between Glasgow and Barra and Tiree

Transport Scotland oversees funds, grants and policy decisions to improve bus travel in the country, as well as providing training for minibus drivers.

Transport Scotland sets the national policy framework on buses which is delivered by bus operators, local authorities, Regional Transport Partnerships and the regulatory authorities.

This note provides information that would be helpful to local authorities in exploring and carrying out this new function.

Changes to information regulations where bus operators withdraw or vary services, and allows Local Transport Authorities to run their own bus services and to introduce Bus Franchising and Bus Service Improvement Partnerships.

A discretionary grant introduced from April 2022, to support commercial and community bus services to be more extensive than would otherwise be the case.