Global airline revenues 'to fall by half'14 Apr 2020 20:39
From the Guardian 2 hours ago. not sure how or if it will affect IAG that much...
Global airline revenues are now forecast to drop by more than half - $314bn (£249bn) – in 2020, as the industry warned that its “outlook grows darker by the day”, writes Gwyn Topham, the Guardian’s transport correspondent.
The International Air Transport Association’s (Iata) latest estimate adds a further $62bn of lost revenue from its previous assessment in late March and is almost three times worse than its “worst-case scenario” from five weeks ago, with around 95% of international passenger traffic now lost due to travel restrictions.
The figures would mean a 55% drop in revenue from 2019, as Iata factored in the extension of travel restrictions, a deepening recession and the further spread of Covid-19 to Africa and Latin America. Iata’s director general, Alexandre de Juniac, said:
The industry’s outlook grows darker by the day. The scale of the crisis makes a sharp V-shaped recovery unlikely. Realistically, it will be a U-shaped recovery with domestic travel coming back faster than the international market.