This will be a bleak winter and there will be failures. But it will not be a winter without hope. Vaccine distribution has begun sooner than most dared to believe, certainly well inside the air transport industry’s most optimistic expectations.
The Dec. 15 news that US President-elect Joe Biden will nominate former election rival Pete Buttigieg to be US Transportation Secretary will likely be met with a slightly quizzical “interesting” by those in Washington DC aviation circles.
In November, Lufthansa Group announced that Brussels Airlines CEO Dieter Vranckx would move to Zurich to become CEO of its Swiss International Air Lines subsidiary on Jan. 1, 2021.
The air transport industry that emerges from the pandemic will look vastly different, and the implications are wide-ranging and highly disruptive. There will be winners and losers in a more constrained marketplace.
Australia’s aviation market has been deeply affected by the coronavirus pandemic, but there is a strong hope that there will be a resumption of air movements in its domestic market before Christmas
Norbert Kettner, CEO of Vienna Tourism, explains that the Austrian capital, which used to be one of the most successful tourism destination in the world, is suffering dramatically from massive reduced air-connections from all over the world.