With vaccines against COVID-19 increasingly available worldwide, the aviation industry has begun anticipating recovery from the pandemic-induced losses that have marked the past year.
However, recovery depends not only on the industry’s own efforts to bolster air travel but also on factors outside its control, including the success of vaccines against the disease in all of its variations and the overall state of the economy.
“We can see the light at the end of the tunnel as vaccination programs roll out,” Alexandre de Juniac, director general and CEO of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said. “But a safe and orderly restart will require careful planning and coordination by governments and industry, and we still face immense challenges containing the spread of new variants.”
In guidance issued several weeks into the pandemic in 2020, Flight Safety Foundation identified scores of recommendations that would need to be examined before oper…
