Issue Summary

Last week's IATA Annual General Meeting was a celebratory ball, of sorts, as airline leaders gathered together en masse for the first time since they did so in 2019, in Seoul. The tone of the meeting was excitement, as executives start to see the climb out from the pandemic beginning in earnest next year, barring any new variants of the coronavirus or fresh outbreaks of Covid-19. Vaccines are key to this recovery, but that raises another vexing question. Vaccine inequity plagues many parts of the world. RwandAir's CEO points to this inequity for why African carriers don't have the luxury…