April 5, 2021
Faizal Yahya
SINGAPORE (CNA) – We will fly again. It just might happen much later for most of us, in 2024 and beyond.
Despite the roll out of vaccines and the opening of economies, the patchy global coverage in vaccinations and the spike in infection rates of COVID-19 in various countries indicate it will be some time before air passenger travel returns to 2019 levels.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) forecast that in an optimistic scenario the air travel market would reach 38 per cent of 2019 levels in 2021 and airlines would spend USD75 billion over the year to maintain operations.
In a pessimistic scenario, the air travel market would only amount to 33 per cent of 2019 levels and airlines would spend USD95 billion. To complicate matters, the recovery will vary across regions. An Aviation Forecast Report by the global consulting service company ICF found that 60 per cent of their respondents polled in Asia thought the region will see full
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Global tourism ponders next moves
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The first visitors wearing face masks to protect against the spread of coronavirus, walk atop of Acropolis hill, as the Parthenon temple is seen in the background in Athens on March 22. Picture: Thanassis Stavrakis/AP
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In a harbour on the Greek island of Paxos, Panagiotis Mastoras checks over his fleet of pleasure craft and counts down the days to the return of the tourists who fuel the economy of the 13km speck in the Ionian Sea.
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photos by STEPHANIE ZOLLSHAN â THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
Marc Strout, who is a detective sergeant in the Pittsfield Police Department, is the first to salute the new Dalton police chief, his wife, Deanna Strout, at her swearing-in ceremony on Saturday. photos by STEPHANIE ZOLLSHAN â THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
STEPHANIE ZOLLSHAN â THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE Deanna Strout is sworn-in as Daltonâs new Chief of Police on Saturday, February 27, 2021.
STEPHANIE ZOLLSHAN â THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
Deanna Strout and her family are escorted past members of the Dalton Police Department before she was sworn-in.
STEPHANIE ZOLLSHAN â THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
STEPHANIE ZOLLSHAN â THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE Marc Strout, who is a detective sergeant in the Pittsfield Police Department, pins the chiefâs badge onto the uniform of Daltonâs new police chief, his wife, Deanna Strout, at her swearing-in ceremony on Saturday, February 27, 2021.
I think she s the best fit for our community, Chair Robert Bishop summarized the consensus. Strout, who said she has wanted to be a police officer since I was 5 years old, has been acquainted with the local force for most of her life. Her uncle, George Wendling, served on the force for 30 years, and Strout became more involved through the Dalton Police Explorers in her youth. The Dalton candidate had emerged as one of three finalists interviewed earlier this week from a crop of 24 applicants that a local search committee has been working to narrow with help from a consultant at Public Safety LLC. Other finalists included Detective Sgt. Jamie Berger of the Wayland Police Department and Cpt. Robert Derksen of the Cortland (N.Y.) County Sheriff s Department.
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