Mr. Gary McLean:

We have met with the groups the Deputy mentioned, but we have also met with others to look at different things. Safety has been the number one priority when it came to the design of the flight paths. We are open to understanding the impacts and how we can look at that into the future. Our presentation outlined a process to provide a voice to everyone. If we just listen to one group, we might move the perceived problem from one place to another. We want to have an open consultative process which allows everyone to have a voice initially and then allows us to work with consultants and experts in the airspace design. It is done in conjunction with AirNav but ultimately we will need to contract with airspace designers to understand the implications not just for noise but for safety and other measures, including environmental measures, regarding the proposals we have already received and any other ideas people will have.

I am engaged with other airports that have run similar processes in the past. Obviously, no two airports are at the same. We are working through that to try to scope it out. We do not have a definitive timeframe but we are committed to try to scope that out, get the team on board, engage with communities and other interested parties, including airlines and users, and then come back with a proposal which is joined up and hopefully takes a balanced approach to that.