00:00There will be a few flights taking off tonight. That is what we expect.
00:04And what's going to be taking off and who can expect to get away if there are going to be some passenger flights?
00:10That will be a few long-distance flights. That's all. So we are sure that we have operations in place for tomorrow morning.
00:16So I think you mentioned that there will be some perhaps incoming repatriation flights and people coming back.
00:23So just give me an idea of the type of operations you're going to be doing this evening.
00:28This afternoon we will prioritise incoming flights that have been stranded in Europe,
00:33so we can get as many passengers into the country as we possibly can.
00:36After that a few flights will be taking off during the evening and that is about it.
00:40Were those flights taking off likely to be, I know this is an airline question, but just to understand,
00:45they likely to be people who were due to fly that evening or people who have been delayed?
00:49That will be flights due to fly this evening.
00:52So what's happened here is that people who were due to fly during the day have lost their opportunity to fly,
00:57but people who this evening were due to fly probably won't be delayed too much. Is that right?
01:02We talk about very few aircrafts tonight, so I don't think that is a major issue.
01:07That is a few flights to make sure that we have operations in place for tomorrow morning.
01:11For tomorrow, again, what's the picture going to be and who can expect to be flying?
01:17Tomorrow morning we expect to be back in full operation, so 100% operation as a normal day.
01:24So people who are booked for tomorrow morning can expect to fly normally and what should they do?
01:29They should come to the airport as they normally would. There's no reason to come earlier.
01:32They should be coming to the airport as they were planning to do otherwise.
01:37How would you sum up what's happened today, just in terms of the operation of this airport?
01:41First of all, what I'd like to do is to apologise to the many people who have had their travel affected during the day today.
01:48We are very sorry about all the inconvenience.
01:51I would like to thank the many people who have been part of bringing the airport back into operation.
01:56That is fire services, authorities, our airlines, handlers and our own colleagues who've done enormous work to get back into operation.
02:04What happened around midnight last night was obviously that we lost a major part of our power supply.
02:11And I'd like to stress that this has been an incident of major severity. It's not a small fire.
02:17We have lost power equal to that of a mid-sized city.
02:22And our backup systems have been working as they should, but they are not sized to run the entire airport.
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