Passengers watch aircraft on the tarmac as they wait for their flight at the King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, July 28, 2020. Few flights are scheduled for international departures only but the authorities have eased domestic travel restrictions since June.
The International Air Transport Association pushed back its prediction by one year due to the slow containment of the outbreak in the U.S. and in developing countries. Besides renewed outbreaks, travel is also being held back by weak consumer confidence and constrained travel budgets at companies that are struggling.
It’s only been 4 months of economic devastation... what were they expecting exactly?
Maybe it shouldn’t, destroying the environment and all
Countries are & have closed their boarders. Almost 17mil infected, almost 700k dead & those are only the ones we know about & rising. When air travel will pick back up again, should be discussed when the pandemic is OVER! If it's ever over.
Fake news, if u were to allowe travel without restrictions today and it was safe to travel, the company, would not even skip a beat
Who expected air travel to recover quickly?
Super...maybe now we will actually have some leg room and not stuffed into seats in order to wrench every last cent into their coffers. I remember a time, a few decades back, when flying was a treat, now it’s just a nightmare.
It's never returning to pre-HOAX virus levels... That's not part of the plan!
maggieNYT I would not set foot in a plane even if they paid me🦠🤮😷
2 months later they’ll be saying it’s gonna take toll 2026. Then next year it might come roaring back and they’d say it’s gonna take till 2021. Nobody knows.
Paris 2025....hopefully! But if not...meh
Maybe they should have saved some money for a rainy day. Maybe they should have managed their finances better. Isn't that what I am expected to do?
No shit! The virus is everywhere and a closed- in Petrie dish does not seem appealing to a lot of people
The world thanks... capitalism desperate... it is incompatible with human kind! Some say it's disgusting... others say it's just capitalism... BOTH ARE CORRECT!!! Selection of my best stories
maggieNYT Yeah, count me out for a long time PriusRules
Did they use a crystal ball to predict?
So which airline company parishes in this pandemic
Not if anti-vaxxers can help it
“Recovering more slowly than expected” I’m surprised it’s even recovering at all right now. How did anyone expect it to recover at any rate before the end of the year?