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Flying in 2021 it can only get better
Hardly any other sector was as hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic as aviation. But COVID also brought unexpected opportunities for an industry seemingly in peril.
A Lufthansa plane taking off from Frankfurt airport
There are some unexpected success stories in a year that IATA Director General Alexandre de Juniac branded an annus horribilis for aviation. And even this characterization might be an understatement. But one has to look for these small hints of hope amid widespread desperation.
For example, Dubai-based Emirates Airlines, one of the grand industry players, was no stranger to success and always in expansion mode. Not so in 2020: For months on end, there were no flights or just a fraction of normal operations. That s something that would have been impossible to imagine only months before. It s been a year like no other.
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People take photos at an empty Merlion Park amid the Covid-19 pandemic, at the central business district in Singapore December 14, 2020. Reuters pic
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SINGAPORE, Dec 27 Singapore s Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed that one of the 10 imported Covid-19 cases in the republic announced yesterday is a 64-year-old Malaysian man with travel history to Indonesia.
Labelled as case 58757, the senior citizen who is a short-term visit pass holder has been isolated upon arrival in Singapore, it said in its full data released late last night.
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