Just barely and he loses his majority. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us we start with a meeting that there could decide the fate of turkish president of syrias kurds a turkish president edge of temporary one is meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin in sochi for talks on Northern Syria turkey launched an offensive there 2 weeks ago to clear the area of Kurdish Militias and carve out a socalled safe zone a u. S. Brokered cease fire to give the kurds time to withdraw is due to expire late on tuesday we have more now on the region in Northern Syria and the players who want a stake in it. Its a fight to a key had been spoiling for for a while. Rancorous determined to expel kurdish led forces from an area close to its southern border on the syrian fighters helping turkey on the ground told e. W. They will stop at nothing to make sure the operations succeeds. We will not stop no matter what International Decisions pressured nothing will stop us were moving forward we
Analysis
The prospects for the third quarter, the most important for European airline revenue, look better in 2021 than in 2020. Forward bookings are up and 3Q2021 seat numbers are planned at 70% of 3Q2019, compared with 3Q2020 at 39%.
Europe s capacity recovery continues in the week commencing 12-Jul-2021, but is not yet at the 70% of 2019 scheduled for 3Q. Seat numbers are 40.7% below the equivalent week of 2019, after -42.7% last week. This is above 50% of pre-pandemic levels for a third successive week.
After eight months as the worst performing region on this measure, Europe has now had three weeks above the Middle East, where seat capacity is down by 45.4% versus 2019. This week (week commencing 12-Jul-2021), Asia Pacific is down by 38.7%, Africa by 38.1%, Latin America by 30.3%, and North America by 23.9%.