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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. ....
By Cirium2021-04-29T01:43:00+01:00 SriLankan Airlines is rebuilding its passenger network in line with its cargo operations, after the carrier experienced a near-total collapse of its tourism sales last year as a result of Covid-19, chief executive Vipula Gunatilleka has disclosed. Whereas pre-pandemic the carrier brought around 30% of all tourists to Sri Lanka, it’s network is now based around long-haul freight routes to Australia and Europe, with an increased presence in Germany and the UK. Source: Wikimedia Commons A Srilankan A330-300 takes off from Tokyo Narita in 2015 “Being an island nation we found lots of opportunities as a cargo trade [destination]”, Gunatilleka told the Routes Reconnected online event on 28 April, explaining that the revenue stream is strong enough to justify the purchase of two dedicated freighter aircraft, adding: “We will start with one and add another in time to come.” ....