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Mar 2020
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Covid-19 and Airlines: A Bleak Forecast

Arabian Business
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In this episode of the Arabian Business podcast, Saj Ahmad, the chief analyst at London-based StrategicAero Research, delivers a bleak forecast on the impact that the ongoing coronavirus pandemic will have on airlines in the Gulf and throughout the world. During the podcast, Ahmad also comments on the impact that Covid-19 will have on the long-running 'Open Skies' debate, the grim 2020 prospects of manufacturers such as Airbus and Boeing, what airlines could have done different and what - if any - long-term changes we will see to air travel as a result of the crisis.  

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