The great aviation recovery is underway, or more precisely – airline capacity is rebuilding in many parts of the world, airline schedules are more stable than they have been all year, and if you are double vaccinated (and able to work out the paper trail of requirements) you can travel freely to most parts of the world. However, you are still unable to travel everywhere and, in a throwback to the mid-nineteenth century, there are markets that remain firmly shut for nearly all international travel and that is not good news for the airline industry. For most airlines, it is generally accepted that international services are more profitable than short-haul domestic services; indeed, some airlines with major hubs happily operate some domestic flights as “loss leaders” to feed their international networks.
Top of the Wrong League Table
The pandemic has created lots of new and interesting data points, many of which are presented as tables of information, and we have finally produced…