Even a Covid vaccine may not bring much joy to the global travel industry

As many as 83% of passengers globally are reluctant to fall back into their old travel habits and 31% will travel less often by air, the survey of some 10,000 frequent fliers conducted showed

The realisation that most business can be conducted virtually teamed with a confusing array of testing and quarantine restrictions means many people don’t plan to resume their regular travel routines even once the coronavirus pandemic has subsided, a study by Inmarsat found.

As many as 83% of passengers globally are reluctant to fall back into their old travel habits and 31% will travel less often by air, the survey of some 10,000 frequent fliers conducted by the London-based firm and released on Tuesday showed. Fear of infection means only just over one-quarter of people in the Asia-Pacific region say they feel