The International Air Transport Association (IATA) reported
during this week that the commercial aviation sector will continue to suffer
even after the pandemic is controlled, as people will experience an economic
crisis and will have "serious" doubts about health security in
planes.
IATA noted that "it is unlikely" that the demand
for air travel will reach the levels it had before the Covid-19 outbreak in the
world, assuring that a survey carried out in 11 countries revealed that 40% of
people said it would take a flight after six months of the end of the epidemic.
According to the association, made up of 290 airlines from
120 nations, the majority of respondents (69%) said they would buy an air
ticket again when their financial situation stabilizes.
Likewise, 60% of the participants assured that they would
take a flight after one or two months of the infections by Covid-19 being
“controlled”.
Therefore, Alexandre de Juniac, IATA director general,
considered that an immediate upturn in the "catastrophic drop in flight
demand" is "unlikely", stressing that although people want to
travel, they are not economically certain.
This international organization, which comprises 82% of
international air traffic, estimated that the income of the world's airlines
has fallen by 55% this year, approximately 314,000 million dollars.
The survey presented by De Juniac was carried out during the
period between April 6 and 9, to people who made a flight in the last nine
months in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, India, Singapore, United
Arab Emirates , Great Britain and the United States.
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