What is air travel expected to return to normal in 2024?

The International Air Transport Association said on Tuesday that due to the impact of the epidemic on the air transport industry, global passenger traffic will not return to the pre-epidemic level until 2024, which is one year later than the previous forecast. Short-distance travel is expected to recover faster than long-distance travel.

Brian Pierce, chief economist of the International Air Transport Association, said that air travel has not improved with the improvement of business confidence in Europe, the United States and China. In June, passenger traffic decreased by 86.5% year-on-year, and in April, the decrease was as high as 94. 1%. It is estimated that the global passenger traffic will drop by 55% compared with 20 19 in 2020, which is even worse than the 46% predicted in April.

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German aviation industry is facing a cold winter;

Recently, the COVID-19 epidemic in many places in Germany has shown a rebound trend, which makes the aviation industry, which is already on thin ice, nervous. Many airports have announced that they will take further prevention and control measures. However, affected by the epidemic, many airlines plan to lay off employees.

Brandenburg Airport, a new airport in Berlin, has been built for more than ten years and is scheduled to open to traffic in June+10 this year. However, due to the epidemic, the new airport faced hundreds of layoffs before opening.

According to the financial statement released by the airport in June, the operating company expects to lose hundreds of millions of euros this year and will lay off 400 people out of 265,438+070 jobs in the next few years. In addition, a number of airlines, including Lufthansa, EasyJet and Ryanair, have also laid off employees recently.

Jiangsu metropolitan network-air travel will return to normal in 2024, one year later than the forecast time.