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| Vol. 20 No. 26 | Wednesday
July 7,
2021 |
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Pumping
Traffic for July 7, 2021 |
 Aviation
In the swamp until 2025—“The situation remains very challenging
for European aviation. We’re
heading into summer 2021 and most restrictions are still in place despite
encouraging progress on the vaccination front. So while we  are
anticipating an uptick in summer traffic, our most likely medium term scenario
envisages a coordinated lifting of restrictions by Q1 2022 between regions,
which facilitates more long-haul travel. We’ll probably have around
50% of 2019 traffic for all of 2021 (5.5 million flights). By the end of
next year, traffic will only have recovered to 72% of 2019 levels, and will
only get back to close to where we were pre-pandemic by 2025,” says
Eamonn Brennan, (left)
Director General, Eurocontrol
. . . Winken-Blinken: The
recent delivery of 2.5M doses of the Moderna
vaccine from the United States
to Islamabad, Pakistan highlights
friendship and cooperation on COVID-19. “We are committed,”
said U.S. Secretary of State Blinken,
“to bringing this pandemic to an end around the world.” .
. . On July 1 A350  (registration
D-AIXP) “Lufthansa & You"
livery flew FRA to LAX
last weekend . . . United
Airlines' June 29 order of 70 Airbus
A321neo-aircraft & 200 B737Max
signals a narrow body future for business class among other things. United
stepping out quickly during the U.S. post pandemic recovery with the biggest
orders (USD$30 billion) in airline history for new airplanes from both Boeing
and Airbus, and an earlier
massive order in the yet to fly smaller electric airplane gains the carrier
an advantage over competitors, as COVID-19 fades in North America faster
than anywhere else . . .  Hopscotching
Headlines—At the moment the pandemic is far from over. IATA
figures remain down, as the rest of the world struggles to regain passenger
traffic. As June ended the number was 53% off 2019 levels .
. . Association of Asia Pacific
Airlines said, May numbers of 1.3 million passengers flying
international routes was just 4.3% versus May 2019 .
. . Airlines for America numbers
on June 30, 2021 saw passenger volumes internationally limping along at
45% pre-crises on international routes . .
. It’s Summer, Jump in the Sandbox! Etihad
Airways, Qatar Airways,
ELAL, Singapore
Airlines, Air Arabia,
Emirates and Oman
Air and some others have all opened up flights as Thailand’s
quarantine-free tourism pilot program for the resort island of Phuket
is now in full swing. The island, which was hit hard by economic losses
during the pandemic, started welcoming fully-vaccinated tourists on July
1, 2021. The “Phuket
Sandbox” program, that industry watchers are focused on right
now, is hoping to jumpstart Thailand’s ailing tourism industry that
has been reeling from pandemic losses (like everywhere else for more than
a year . . . Saudi
Arabia, in a bid to put itself on the enhanced airline map
of the world, reportedly is going to launch a new national  airline.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
said he wants a transportation and logistics effort that would land the
Kingdom as the fifth-biggest air transit hub in the world. The Saudi expansion
comes on the heels of Riyadh
announcing it would cease awarding contracts to firms that do not set up
regional headquarters in the Kingdom. The new airline is in line with an
effort to create new industries including tourism, and to more than double
travel volume via the Kingdom to 100 million
by 2030, from its present
day-40 million in 2019.
The move comes at a time of massive losses in UAE
with Emirates reporting an
incredible USD$5.5 billion
annual loss for its fiscal year recently that required a massive government
bailout. Neighbor Etihad Airways,
that today is a financial basket case, has unsuccessfully spent billions
investing in airlines that failed, whilst falling way short of the mark
in its attempt to build Abu Dhabi into a major hub .
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