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Airlines bemoan lack of coordinated approach to Covid effort

Airlines bemoan lack of coordinated approach to Covid effort

Industry foresees slow recovery, perhaps not until 2024, while mass inoculation trudges along

Thai Airways International jets are grounded at Suvarnabhumi airport.

Travel restrictions in many parts of the world caused by new outbreaks triggered by virus mutations and differing paces of vaccination threaten recovery prospects for the aviation industry, which is suffering its worst crisis.

The lack of standards and coordination as well as the manner in which Covid-related restrictions are enforced is making recovery less predictable or sustainable, said Jeffrey Goh, chief executive of Star Alliance.

Travel is vital to being human and travel policies should support this movement through responsible…

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