Aviation under the COVID-19 pandemic:A synopsis from normalcy to chaos and back  

作　　者：Xiaoqian Sun Sebastian Wandelt Anming Zhang 

机构地区：[1]National Key Laboratory of CNS/ATM,School of Electronic and Information Engineering,Beihang University,Beging,China [2]Sauder School of Business,University of British Columbia,Vancouver,BC,Canada

出　　处：《Journal of the Air Transport Research Society》2023年第1期136-151,共16页航空交通(英文)

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.U2233214 and Grant No.62250710166).

摘　　要：Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic early in the year 2020,the aviation system has been under extreme pressure for more than two years,with many stakeholders anticipating the moment of recovery.In Summer 2022,eventually,many airlines reached profit margins again.Several airlines even reported to outperform pre-pandemic indicators,including the number of passengers and quarterly revenues.Accordingly,one could say that 2022 is part of the new normalcy in our global aviation system.In this study,we investigate the changes in the global aviation,comparing the year 2019 as a pre-pandemic baseline with the aviation system throughout the year 2022.The connectivity of nearly 8,000 cities worldwide is compared and underlying drivers identified through the design of adequate econometric models.We find that the largest extent of recovery has taken place in secondary cities.We find a rather heterogeneous spatial recovery pattern,which indicates the necessity to better understand the differences in the current aviation system.Moreover,changes of global connectivity indicators,e.g.,betweenness centrality,seem to be of rather complex nature.Our study contributes towards a better understanding of the post-pandemic global aviation system and concludes with a set of future research directions,which can hopefully guide other researchers to identify open challenges for the new normalcy.

关 键 词：COVID-19 pandemic AVIATION Review Data-driven analysis 

分 类 号：F56[经济管理—产业经济]