Carriers and the disease: the airlines set for hard landings
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Which firms will fly above the covid-19 clouds? Big, low-cost carriers with strong finances seem likeliest, but either way consolidation is inevitable. The Indian state of Kerala seems to be handling its outbreak far better than others; blame an unassuming but wildly popular health minister. And whether New York’s beloved Irish pubs will craic on past the pandemic.
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| 1:02.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence on Economist Radio. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:08.9 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:17.9 | Among the Indian state of Kerala's 35 million people, there have been just a handful of deaths due to COVID-19. The secret? Cheap, well-known techniques applied early, and a rock-star |
| 1:24.8 | health minister leading the efforts. |
| 1:43.3 | And we visit the Irish pub scene in New York. It's quiet. Big changes were already underway before the pandemic hit. Now, some may never reopen. But take heart, the demise of the Irish pub has been predicted many times before. |
| 1:51.9 | First up, though. |
| 1:59.6 | The airline industry was one of the first to feel the impacts of the pandemic. |
| 2:02.1 | In April this year, planes carried just 47 million passengers, a level of mobility that, if annualized, looks like numbers from |
| 2:08.0 | 1978. Quiet skies have led to record losses for some carriers, and for others to bailouts, |
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