Mr. Dalton Philips:

People make up 60% of our total cost base. The traffic is not coming back. We have lost 25 years of traffic and are back at 1995 levels. We are a commercial organisation that needs to fulfil a critical State role. If we do not lower our cost base, we will hit a wall and go bust. We are saying goodbye to about a quarter to a third of our workforce, somewhere between 750 and 850 people. For those who remain, we are saying that we can guarantee their wages at 80% with a plan to get them back to 100%, which is unprecedented in the sector because, as we know, many people are on significantly lower levels than that. We have balloted all our team members and 93% of the groups represented by ballots have voted in favour of the new work practices, which are very fair and in most cases, and I can use crafts as an example, have been in place for the past ten years. We are dealing with a group of craft workers who, unfortunately, are not in favour of these new work practices, which a number of their colleagues have been operating for the past ten years. I am talking about people in the same teams. We are working through that and will continue to engage. I am very closely involved here. We do not want to see anybody suffer and I wish it was not the case.

Regarding the Deputy's second question, we do have two people doing the same job in the same airport on different terms and conditions. This disparity between those who came in on new market-based contracts and those with slightly older contracts has existed for nearly ten years. It is something of which we are very aware. Where we can look to bridge that gap, we try to do so but we cannot do it in all cases. At the moment, it is particularly difficult.