Issue Summary

By now, airlines hoped the Covid crisis would be over. Or at least that the world would be a lot further along in the recovery. September has arrived, almost nine months since Chinese carriers began facing Covid’s wrath. For the world at large, the crisis is now about seven months old. Conditions, it’s true, are not quite as dire as they were in April. Governments have relaxed restrictions on domestic travel and in some cases shorthaul international travel (within Europe most notably). Here and there are mild signs of green shoots: leisure travel in China, intra-state travel in Australia, low-cost…