CalMac payments for meals and accommodation averaged more than £50,000 a month last summer.
Disruption payouts to passengers on Scotland's publicly-owned ferry operator sharply rose last year.
It paid out £215,000 in disruption claims between April and July 2022 compared to £261,000 for the whole of the previous year.Most of the money paid out over the last five years was to refund meals and accommodation costs to passengers who faced disruption. However, a spokesman for Transport Scotland said "the vast majority" of cancelled sailings were due to adverse weather conditions.
"Our ferry fleet has been left to rust because of years of failed planning, as well as the ferry fiasco where the Scottish government have failed to deliver two new ferries.A spokesperson for CalMac said: "We would always encourage passengers who are entitled to compensation to make a claim to us.
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