How do you think Travel will change post COVID-19 lockdown?

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   LongingCalmposted 4 years ago

   These are unprecedented times. COVID-19 crisis has hit almost every industry, worldwide. Airlines are no exceptions and have taken a severe hit to come to a stand still. Now that everybody is playing "Will They, Won’t They" game with airlines on a daily basis.
   
   My question is, that with the economic turmoil airlines are in, do you think routes will be reinstated rather quickly after restrictions ease up, or the economic unpredictability would cause a delay between, when ease on restrictions versus when a route comes back on the schedule?
   
   We all very well aware that post lock-down, world will not be the same place again.
   Root point is, Will We or Won’t We travel again? And if we do, when? And how?

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      Kyler J Falkposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      This virus has already put pressure on investors to turn the tides of science to traveling individually underground, or, at the very least, travelling in individual transportation vehicles that allow for proper social distancing. Essentially, it depends on how inconvenienced the wealthy continue to feel over this whole mess.
      
      If I had to take a guess, I'd say that the poor will continue to get to fly by way of coach in their air-cages, pressed tightly together as they inhale one another's fumes and particles. While, as we have already seen, private jet services drop their prices to match the increase in demand for their services and increase their reach. Science will continue down the road of further socially isolating people and at some point we will obtain an unhealthy introvert's paradise.
      
      Then again, I'm a degenerate on an internet forum and my opinion is worth about as much as the time I spent typing it.

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      Eurofileposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      I think we will eventually travel again, but it will take time to restore confidence in air travel. Even now I know of people who have flown to go on holiday.
      Big game changers will be the development of a treatment for COVID-19,  the development of a vaccine or the natural decline of the virus. Until we can travel without the fear of catching COVID-19 or worse, dying as a result, then air travel will be for the minority not the majority, who will stay home to stay safe.
      I am guessing that this won't happen until 2021 and only time will tell if air travel gets back to where it was before COVID-19. It will take time for confidence in the safety of travel to be restored.
      We will probably go back to travelling as we used to, but it will take a while and we maybe won't travel in such great numbers.

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         LongingCalmposted 4 years agoin reply to this

         Yes, I agree with your perspective to a large extent, but adding to your idea, I think it is going to be in  phased manner for example two countries might want to start exchange flights when both the countries find that they have not found a single case of Corona for a safer period of time. It might start  between thinly populated countries that to on a controlled level.

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