I agree that we would all love to get aviation moving again. As a medical publisher I’m a frequent flyer and also involved in organising medical conferences, again this relies on groups of clinicians flying all over the world.
However, what the rampant ‘unlock brigade’ on this forum fail to grasp is that the restrictions are not ‘mamby pamby’ measure to make sure we don’t contract COVID-19, the restrictions are to SLOW THE SPREAD of the infection throughout the population.
The virus will not go away or die out - it will remain with us. Until a vaccine is available or an effective treatment can be developed, we will need to adapt the way we live our lives to ensure that we always have the capacity within our health systems and to ensure that we don’t overwhelm our hospitals.
This means social distancing, enhanced cleaning and hand hygiene will have to remain with us for the foreseeable future.
Reducing contact is the only tool we have at our disposal to help to control the spread, and people are going to have accept that further periods of restrictions will have to be imposed and relaxed in waves to allow society to continue to function. This will cause on-going disruption to air travel in the years going forward and any return to previous levels of travel is unlikely in the next few years.
This is the ‘new normal’ and airlines and airports are going to need to contract and adapt to deal with the reality of years of continuous on-going disruption.