3Greens, RexBanner - spot on, gentlemen. People's willingness to travel is still there, it's policy that's preventing them from doing so. Working in the leisure segment myself, I rarely see a load factor below 85-90% wherever free movement is permitted. Nobody seems to be making a fuss out of having to wear a mask - and boarding and disembarkation in an orderly manner, row by row, have actually made the experience better as nobody likes being pushed along and having someone else breathe right in their neck.
Why do people still want to travel amidst a pandemic? Because going somewhere different and nice for a week is one of the most relieving, recharging things you can do even when it's smooth sailing back home. Let alone when people are struck by cabin fever from lockdown and have spent months being deprived of as little pleasures as a walk in the park or a coffee with a colleague. Call it a mental health booster if you want. It's for a reason that confinement to a prison cell is a form of punishment, not a form of reward.
That being said, the news from Pfizer today was seriously good. If a vaccine with an efficiency of over 90% can exist, bringing the public health emergency to an end is a matter of a year or thereabout. And, if it's that efficient and sufficiently widespread within the population, mass testing will eventually become obsolete.