Aviation has been crippled by border closures that have prevented travel since March. FMTNews Coronavirus
A woman stands inside a coronavirus sterilisation chamber at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya in March.
The International Air Transport Association warned that the sector’s debt was expected to rise to US$550 billion by the end of the year – an increase of 28%. The remainder of the state aid consists of wage subsidies , equity financing , and tax relief/subsidies . Iata highlighted regional disparities, saying that airlines in North America had been promised aid worth 25% of their 2019 revenues; in Europe, the figure was 15% and in the Asia-Pacific region, 10%.Iata pointed to bankruptcies in Australia, Britain, Italy, Thailand and Turkey where governments had not stepped in strongly enough.
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