1. The recovery will outperform IATA’s 43% prediction
Earlier this month, IATA predicted that revenue passenger kilometers for 2021 would reach 43% of the levels seen in 2019.
However, our experts were more optimistic, with three of the four speakers expecting the market to perform better.
The Points Guy’s senior director of content Nicky Kelvin said the recovery seen in the US would lead the resurgence.
“I'm looking at the US, and it's rapid increase in pretty much everything, and I'm hopeful that the recovery will be better than forecast,” he said.
Fellow panelist, ASM managing director David Stroud, said he expected the market to be “just a little better… shades of better” than predicted.