Publish Time:2021-02-22 10:44:30Source:Breaking Travel News
【Introduction】:The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has added its voice to a chorus of demands for the UK government to include a vision for lifting border restrictions in a speech next week.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has added its voice to a chorus of demands for the UK government to include a vision for lifting border restrictions in a speech next week.
Restarting air transport must be included in recovery plans for the UK economy, due to be outlined on Monday by prime minister Boris Johnson, the body said.
The Covid-19 shutdown of the UK economy has resulted in the biggest one-year decline in GDP since 1709.
Air passenger numbers fell by 76 per cent in 2020, while London lost its position as the most connected city in the world.
Around 860,000 aviation, travel and tourism jobs were lost or sustained only due to government furlough schemes.
If current border restrictions remain in place, there is no prospect of a recovery in air transport and these negative impacts will continue, damaging the UK economy for a generation or more, IATA said.
Prior to Covid-19, the UK aviation industry supported around 960,000 jobs and £57 billion in GDP (direct, indirect or induced impacts).
A further 465,000 jobs were supported through aviation-related travel and tourism.
It is therefore vital that the air transport industry is included in the government’s plan for rolling back lockdown restrictions, officials argued.
“We recognise that the government has a difficult balancing act between unlocking the economy and safeguarding public health. “We are not demanding a date for border restrictions to be lifted. “But prime minister Johnson must set out a vision for how international travel can and will be restarted as the pandemic ends.
“That vision would include explaining how a phased reduction of restrictions would work, and the levels to which infections or hospitalisations would need to fall to trigger those reductions.
“With this science-based approach locked in, the industry and the public will have the certainty to plan for take-off,” said Rafael Schvartzman, IATA regional vice president for Europe.
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