A Third of the World’s Air Routes Have Been Lost Due to Covid(bloomberg.com)
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A Third of the World’s Air Routes Have Been Lost Due to Covid
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-12/a-third-of-the-world-s-air-routes-have-been-lost-due-to-covid
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The key projection in this article that affected me the most was: “The crisis is unwinding a vast social and industrial overhaul that took place during half a century of air-travel proliferation. In years to come, overseas business trips and holidays will likely mean more airport stopovers, longer journey times, and perhaps an additional mode of transport.” and according to this author, It might take a good four or five years for connectivity to return to the same level we saw at the end of 2019. Just when we were starting to feel good about a tightly connected world, making globetrotting a breeze - this seems like a severe and painful regression