Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Impact on Aviation

Mr. Ray Gray:

I thank the Deputy for his question. First, all of our engagement with our staff is very much about trying to ensure the best interests of the company of which we are all employees. It is quite clear that we are going to have a significant reduction in our activities, our revenues and the number of employees we will need for a very different form of aviation. This will unfortunately be the case for quite some time to come. In the immediate term we are faced with the reality that we will need fewer people to run our business and that we will have much lower levels of revenue with which to operate it. That is why we have engaged in a very realistic process with our staff, about both how we work and their options at the airport. We are trying to do that in a manner that is responsible, sympathetic and realistic.