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AER LINGUS GROUP PLC - ANNUAL REPORT 2008
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London
with worker representatives particularly with regard to
the implementation of its cost reduction programme in
November 2008. In addition, Aer Lingus has various
communication channels in place to keep all employees
up-to-date on key issues and developments, including
an intranet, notice boards, webcasts, email, newsletters,
road shows and department briefings and specific
websites for pilots and cabin crew.
Profit share and share ownership: Aer Lingus
operates profit share and share ownership schemes.
See Note 23 to the financial statements for more details.
Pension schemes: Aer Lingus operates a number
of pension schemes. See Note 24 to the financial
statements for more details.
Charity, community and customers
Charity and community: Aer Lingus facilitates staff
charitable donations through payroll deductions and also
encourages and supports staff involvement in charitable
activities. Aer Lingus facilitates its employees in paying
subscriptions and volunteering with Air Concern, a Dublin
Airport based charity, which provides financial assistance
to families in need in the community by working in
partnership with the Ballymun Money Advice Service.
In 2008 Aer Lingus supported the LauraLynn Children’s
Hospice Foundation, in raising funds for the first children’s
hospice in the south of Ireland. The foundation was
established by Jane and Brendan McKenna in memory of
their two daughters who they lost to two different illnesses
in the last number of years. They have merged with
Children’s Sunshine Home and plan to build LauraLynn
House this year. This will be a “Home from Home”, to
give respite and support not only to the sick child, but
also very importantly to the family as a whole. Aer Lingus
has offered its support by way of on board collections
over a two-week period on European flights, and also
donated a number of premier class return tickets for
auction prizes to help raise much-needed funds.
Aer Lingus has also partnered with Belfast City Marathon
as a gold sponsor for the 2009 Marathon. In its 28th year,
the event has gone from strength to strength, attracting
many athletes from around the world. The Group hopes
to welcome many of the participants and, indeed,
spectators on board, travelling to the event in May 2009.
Aer Lingus will be supporting this year’s nominated
charity Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Trust, by helping raise the
awareness of the condition over the Marathon period.
Change for Good™ is the in-flight collection of unwanted
foreign notes and coins on all long haul Aer Lingus
flights, which supports UNICEF’s global mission for
children in over 150 of the world’s poorest countries
and territories. In 2008 €1.1m was raised on Aer Lingus
flights. Thanks to the continued support of Aer Lingus
passengers and staff through Change for Good™,
UNICEF is working to build a world fit for all children
where the rights of every child will be realised. Every day,
simply by putting leftover notes and coins into Change
for Good™ envelopes, Aer Lingus passengers are
bringing hope and building a better future for children
whose lives have been torn apart by war, natural disaster
and poverty. For more information on UNICEF Ireland
and the Change for Good™ partnership, please visit
www.unicef.ie.
A very special Change for Good™ collection took place
onboard all Aer Lingus flights in May 2008, and raised
€303,318 in aid of UNICEF Ireland’s Emergency Appeal
for the children affected by Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar
(Burma). Around 2.4 million people were severely
affected by the cyclone, over 40% of them children, and
the money raised by this special Change for Good™
appeal went directly to the hundreds of UNICEF relief
missions, who were delivering essential survival kits,
water purification kits, medicines and mosquito nets.
Aer Lingus passengers donate over €303,300 to UNICEF
Ireland for the children of Myanmar (Burma) Pictured (L to R)
Louise Faherty, Aer Lingus Cabin Crew and Melanie Verwoerd,
UNICEF Ireland Executive Director.