Auckland Airport boss relatively relaxed on virus impact

Auckland Airport boss relatively relaxed on virus impact
Rebecca Howard
Auckland International Airport’s chief executive is relatively sanguine about the impact of covid-19, noting that the firm's growth has been resilient through similar disruptive events.“If we look back at history we see through various events, whether it’s the Christchurch earthquake, SARS, avian bird flu, those kinds of things, actually our growth has been pretty resilient,” chief executive Andrew Littlewood told BusinessDesk. The company reported a 2.2 percent lift in first-half underlying profit and trimmed its full-year guidance by $5...

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