Air travel is a disaster right now. Here’s why. §

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• Author: Derek Thompson
• Full Title: Air travel is a disaster right now. Here’s why.
• Category:#articles
• URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/06/summer-air-travel-flights-cancelled/661385/

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• Those decisions certainly helped improve the balance sheet throughout 2020. But would they have made the same call if they had known how quickly travel demand would rebound? Almost certainly not. They assumed that this was going to be a six-year recovery period, not an 18-month recovery period. So when travel demand started rebounding much quicker than they anticipated, the airlines were caught flat-footed.