Mr. Kevin Thompstone:

I thank the Senator. The way we set the scheme up is for the recovery of traffic and routes that existed up to 2019 that were viable. That is our whole objective. It is getting back routes that were operating successfully beforehand but because of the pandemic and restrictions on travel have not been able to operate over the period.

We said in our assumptions to the model that airlines could opt for either the existing route support schemes that most airports have already or the traffic recovery support scheme we are putting forward but not both. It is one or the other.