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- Where exactly are the approximately 5,000 staff you 'quote'?
The 5,000 FTE reduction was off the 2013 baseline of 33,265 FTEs, wasn't it? So there's a reduction of 3,669 FTEs in absolute terms to 2017.
And then there's the fact that the 5,000 target was never a straight up reduction in absolute terms; I'm pretty sure that it was always couched as a net reduction
after adjusting for activity and new businesses. I'm not sure how they looked to measure activity but passenger numbers aren't a bad surrogate. Passengers numbers between 2013 and 2017 grew by around 11 per cent so "
after adjusting for activity" there's the equivalent of something like an additional 3,000 FTEs.
So there's your 5,000+ net reduction in FTEs after adjusting for activity and new businesses right there.