00:00I think, maybe to address that point, why did we close the airport?
00:05When we cannot safely operate the airport,
00:10and when we cannot guarantee and have full visibility and transparency
00:15on the fact that we can operate the airport safely,
00:18then we cannot operate the airport.
00:20I think the only thing we could have done worse than that
00:22would have been to let passengers travel from an unsafe airport.
00:26That is not an option, and we cannot compromise on that.
00:30That's quite clear in our license with the Civil Aviation Authority.
00:36So it became quite clear that we could not operate the airport safely
00:41quite early in this process, and that is why we closed the airport.
00:44If we had not done that, we would have had thousands of passengers
00:49stranded at the airport, high risk to personal injury,
00:53gridlocked roads around the airport, because don't forget,
00:5865,000 houses, other institutions were powered down.
01:03Traffic lights didn't work, just to give you an example.
01:05Many things didn't work.
01:07Parts of the civil infrastructure didn't work.
01:09So the risk of having literally tens of thousands of people
01:14stranded at the airport where we would have nowhere to put them,
01:17we could not process them, would have been a disastrous scenario
01:21which we could not look into, and which, by the way,
01:24was also agreed by the alliance on the day.
01:26I think maybe I'll leave it there. There are many more details,
01:29but I think this is a short summary of how we look at it.
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