The near-term picture for aviation remains bleak. “Instead of a boost from the year-end holiday period, we got even more restrictions,” said de Juniac in a media briefing. “Governments tightened borders in a knee-jerk response to a virus mutation.
Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, and others added testing to their COVID-19 measures without removing quarantine requirements. In other words, they have chosen policy measures that will shut down travel.”
Aiming for a zero-COVID world?
According to de Juniac, rather than a balanced approach, governments appear to be aiming for a zero-COVID world. “This is an impossible task that comes with severe consequences—the full extent of which it would be impossible to calculate,” he noted. “But, with this approach, we know for sure that the travel and tourism economy will not recover; jobs will continue to disappear; and the…
