The International Air Transport Association (IATA) called on governments to provide more support to the global aviation industry, and stated that airlines in the world are losing about $ 418 million daily.
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According to Arabiya Net, the Etihad said that it expects the losses of the aviation industry in the world to reach 77 billion dollars during the second half of this year, based on the continued weakness of travel traffic Global due to restrictions imposed to limit the spread of the emerging corona virus.
Since the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic, governments have provided airlines with aid amounting to about $ 160 billion, whether in the form of cash liquidity, loan guarantees, support for the wages of their workers, or tax exemptions According to the German news agency.
Alexandre de Juniac, CEO of the International Air Transport Association, told a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, that airlines usually accumulate cash in the mid-high season. Year, but in the current year companies' losses continued during that period.
and Juniac warned that in the absence of any timetable to reopen skies and travel in the world, it is not possible to rely on the end-of-year holiday season to generate additional cash revenues that companies can Count on them until next spring season.
The International Federation has warned that without additional government support for airlines, about 4.8 million jobs in the sector will be at risk.
and the Etihad renewed its call for passengers to take a rapid test to detect the emerging corona virus before they board airplanes to ensure safe travel and to eliminate the need to put them in quarantine that prevents many people From traveling.
