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Originally Posted by nolafan
Most data has shifted more towards mid 2021 for pre-covid numbers. We are increasing passengers relatively quickly. Southwest will have it's full schedule by December of this year. Domestic travel will likely be back to pre covid numbers by end of the year.
The wild card here is international travel.
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I hope you are right. If MSY does achieve that feat, it would be the only airport in the word to regain pre-COVID numbers by that time.
Remember, more than ⅔ of all the world's airline fleets have been grounded. And, without a vaccine (that works), it will be hard to convince everyone that it's "safe" to fly.
At very best, a vaccine will not be widely available until mid-2021. Even if one is "ready" by the beginning of 2021, those doses will go to essential workers first and then trickle down to the general public - which will take quite a while. And at least a few of the vaccine prototypes will require one to have two or more doses over a specific amount of time.