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The Bunker

Daily: Can AVIATION survive isolation?

The Bunker

Podmasters

News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6984 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The airline and travel industries are suffering the most serious crisis in their history: worse than 9/11, the 2008 financial slump and the Icelandic volcano combined. Can air travel survive COVID? And given its carbon footprint, do we even want it to? Aviation writer JOHN WALTON tells Andrew Harrison how airlines will have to change, why the industry can’t operate on a financial knife edge any longer… and if it’s right for bearded billionaires with private islands to get the begging bowl out. Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved

0:05.5

photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

0:13.0

I loved going to college.

0:14.0

It's good you can retrain and do something.

0:16.0

Yeah, yeah.

0:17.0

Let's talk about working, learning, saving and making the most of living longer.

0:22.0

Phoenix Group is the UK's largest long-term savings and retirement business.

0:28.0

Search Phoenix Group living longer.

0:30.0

Pets brings so much joy.

0:32.0

From those happy greetings at the door to the warm cuddles on the sofa

0:36.7

so give a little love back with dental life from Purina a range of delicious chues made for dogs and tasty snacks for cats that help clean and support your pets, teeth and gums, essential for their overall well-being and a happy, healthy life. They give you plenty of smiles so

0:55.3

look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to another bunker daily I'm Andrew Harrison. I don't know about you but I'm getting some of the best sleep of my life right now I live right under the flight path to Stansted and skies which used to be noisy by 7 a.m.

1:20.0

and out clear and quiet long into the day. The reason of course is that the air travel

1:24.0

industry is in suspended animation. In fact it's experiencing the worst crisis in

1:27.6

its history bigger than 9-11 and the 2008 financial crisis combined. Global air traffic is down almost two-thirds.

1:34.6

Passengers in US airports alone were down from 2.3 million on the 1st of March to 95,000

1:40.0

on the 16th of April and airlines are applying for government bailouts.

1:43.6

It seems reasonable to ask the industry can survive coronavirus in anything like recognizable

1:48.6

form.

1:49.6

And also, we're all human, we want to know whether we'll ever be able to travel and go on holiday

1:53.4

the way we used to again.

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