I spent 2020 helping aircrews navigate a constantly-changing set of regulations in a large Middle Kingdom-like country. Entry, quarantines, testing, Customs, quick turns, unexpected AOGs, ferry crews, Medevacs, quotas, and probably 5 or 6 major patterns of permissions in the last 11 months. The passengers needed help, too. The first 4 or 5 months getting out and then the last few months getting back in, again with the backdrop of regs changing from week to week.
I'm lucky in that this year I had a steady employment and my skills made me a more valuable part of our team than I might have been otherwise. Many colleagues from my previous job on the infrastructure side were not as lucky and the massive downturn in the worldwide aviation industry hit them hard, including almost certainly what would have been my position. For 2021, let's get some vaccines in arms and people back in the sky!