Bulletin de l’Association de Géographes Français (Dec 2023)

Les mutations des routes aériennes et des aéroports face à la crise du Covid

  • Raymond Woessner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4000/bagf.11363
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 100, no. 3
pp. 340 – 355

Abstract

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Commercial aviation experienced exceptional growth in the 2010s, marked by the growing importance of its activity in Asia. This trend collapsed in 2020 and 2021 with the Covid crisis. The resulting chaos has brought to light a different geography of the airline world. Underlying this evolution are the more or less permissive and hesitant policies of different countries. In 2022, the pre-Covid trends again are obvious, but the Chinese giant is still missing. The market thus appears resilient as long as political decisions on health matters no longer hinder it. Better still, airlines have used the crisis to accelerate their rationalization. However, the general uncertainties appear more and more numerous and diverse.

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