Worldwide air bridge COVID19 supply lines
Negotiations are ongoing at the highest levels of governments around the world including China, to create a huge and comprehensive air bridge system to supply mainly the USA, Europe, Scandinavia and Australia with goods. The 'shelter in place' quarantine approach and airlines grounding the majority of their fleets removes a huge amount of cargo space while demand is high. China is rapidly increasing manufacturing to before Covid-19 levels and even higher for priority products. There is an immediate need for full freighters, long haul and domestic, this need is modeled to exist for at least half a year. Demand is expected to be so high that regulation regarding transporting Dangerous Goods through the air needs to be (temporarily) adapted in order to fly certain DG's on pax airplanes without the pax. Several airlines are looking into getting mothballed freighters back into the air as governments will financially support this. This idea is preferred over using military aircraft. Source is a high level USA State Department staffer.