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Stuck in air travel's hell? Blame the long shadow of Covid pandemic

While travel volumes are returning to something like normality in most of the world, the legacy of Covid - in the form of the vast debts clocked up during two years on life support has barely shifted

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Airlines would dearly love to tempt passengers back with the promise of a return to business as usual.

David Fickling | Bloomberg
Much of the rich world is emerging from two years of pandemic more flush than it’s ever been. Deposits held by consumers at U.S. commercial banks are roughly $3.5 trillion above where they’d have been if they continued the pre-pandemic trend, a position that inflation is only starting to eat away.

For the airline industry, it’s precisely the opposite. While travel volumes are returning to something like normality in most of the world, the legacy of Covid — in the form of the vast debts clocked up during two years on life support — has barely shifted.

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