 Over half of the scheduled trial sailings were cancelled due to adverse weather and tidal conditions.Despite the apparent lack of success, it was announced in September 2015 that "LOTI" would commence daily return sailings on the route from the summer timetable in 2016.Once again based in Mallaig rather than Oban, she also carried out extra sailings on the Armadale route alongside the 2016 season vessels, and , which had replaced .