Ms Mary Considine:

Again, the temporary wage subsidy scheme is very important in the context of supporting aviation, particularly through the real hardship we are in at the moment. Similar to other airports, we have proposed a number of measures to reduce our payroll costs as we work through the recovery period, including career breaks, reduced working hours, a temporary reduction in pay and a voluntary severance scheme.

We are not per seseeking significant job cuts in the airport. The measures we proposed are more about preserving employment in the long term but taking some difficult and painful measures in the short term. We are very conscious that has an impact on all our employees. To be fair to those employees, they have been working with us. It has been a very difficult period but the difficult and temporary measures we have taken will ensure sustainability of employment in the airport and region in the longer term.