Airlines Add Back Another 3.1 Million Seats This Week
The challenges of the airline industry are captured in this week’s data; short-term growth clouded by the reality of having to cut another 7.9 million seats from the planned July schedules.
For every positive indicator, there seems to be an immediate response with further lockdowns or bubbles deflating. This weekend saw a very small Covid-19 outbreak in Australia, well small by the rest of the world’s standards, and the Tasman bubble is closed, four states have put travel restrictions in place proving that a zero-based Covid approach just will not work for the aviation industry.