Virgin Australia’s CEO says no further redundancies have been planned as a result of the airline’s move into voluntary administration on Tuesday morning.
Airline boss Paul Scurrah said the development would not have an immediate impact on its operations.
Virgin Australia CEO Paul Scurrah. Source: AAP
“We have not changed anything in respect to the operations or the employees,” he said.
“There is no plans to make any redundancies, wages will continue to be paid and for those who have been stood down and are accessing Job Keeper, the intention is to continue to make those payments available to those staff.”
Mr Scurrah said “in excess of 10 parties” had already reached out had already expressed in investing in Virgin throughout the restructuring process.
Queensland Minister for Development Cameron Dick, whose government had previously offered Virgin a $200 million lifeline, said he is trying to organise an urgent meeting with the administrators.
“We’re keen to speak to them quickly, to demonstrate to them our interest in supporting the administration in a managed way going forward,” Mr Dick told ABC News.
“We’ll need to reassess our position, but it’s not our intention to walk away from this, if I can say that. We…
