The global aviation industry will take at least two years to recover from the coronavirus pandemic and for mass travel to return, Singapore¡¯s Transport Minister Ong Ye Kung has said, stressing the importance of developing a widely available and effective vaccine to help countries open their borders.
¡°When a vaccine is widely available around the world and people gain confidence to travel again and visit other countries, then we will have aviation back on its feet, almost fully,¡± Ong said in an interview. ¡°How long that will that take, I can¡¯t make a guess, I would say minimally a couple of years.¡±
Singapore has to ¡°find ways to try to revive¡± the aviation sector, the minister said, adding that the city-state¡¯s testing capacity is now around 30,000 a day and may rise to 40,000 by November and probably further after then. A balance needs to be struck between travel and epidemic control, Ong said.
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