Aviation 2022 and beyond:
Survey Results — March 2022

With the end of the Covid-19 pandemic, and for a bit of fun we decided to poll our readers on their (your) views of the short- and medium-term prospects for the airline industry. That was before the grim reality of Russia’s invasion became apparent. Nevertheless, the survey provided some very interesting insights from a good 30% response rate.

As in all good surveys the first question was an easy one, and kept deliberately vague: "When do you expect global passenger traffic to recover to pre-pandemic (ie 2019) levels?". The results (see chart) were not totally surprising: the majority (57%) plumped for 2024 as the recovery year; 20% a bit more optimistically suggesting 2023; and 24% more pessimistically thinking 2025 or later.