Source: ACI New Airports Council International (ACI) World data shows that the lasting adverse impact of the COVID-19 crisis is forecast to remove an additional 5.2 billion passengers by the end of this year compared to the pre-COVID-19 forecast for 2021. Despite recent positive news of certain markets re-opening their borders, global passenger traffic in 2021 is still expected to reach only half of what it was in 2019, with total traffic for 2021 forecast to be only 4.6 billion of the 9.2 billion passengers served two years ago. Domestic passenger traffic continues to recover faster than the international market expecting to reach more than 3.1 billion passengers by the end of the year, a level corresponding to 58.5% of [...]

Source: UNWTO At the start of a crucial week for global governance, tourism’s relevance will be part of the discussions at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), just as it was in Rome when G20 leaders met to coordinate plans for sustainable and inclusive recovery. In Italy, UNWTO succeeded in placing tourism’s importance in the spotlight. The leaders of some of the world’s biggest economies endorsed the G20 Rome Guidelines for the Future of Tourism, committing themselves to taking action to fulfil its objectives, particularly to accelerate the return of safe and seamless travel and the digital transformation of the sector. The G20 Rome Leaders’ Declaration states: “We will continue to support a rapid, resilient, inclusive and sustainable recovery of [...]

Source: ALTA Member airlines from the Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association held their Annual General Meeting today and the new Executive Committee President was elected: Roberto Alvo, CEO of LATAM Airlines, whose position will be effective today, October 24, 2021, and for a period of one year. Alvo is a civil engineer graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has an MBA from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland. He joined LAN Airlines (current LATAM Airlines Group) in November 2001. Before taking up his current position, he served as Commercial Vice President, as Senior Vice President for International and Alliances, as Director of Administration and Finance at LAN Argentina, Manager of Development [...]

Source: ALTA From October 24 to 26, 2021, more than 350 top executives from the commercial aviation industry and government representatives will gather in Bogota, Colombia, to conduct a high-level international dialogue, which will be converted into a proactive agenda with concrete actions aimed at promoting even safer, more efficient and sustainable aviation in Latin America and Caribbean. The ALTA Airline Leaders Forum academic agenda includes the participation of more than 50 speakers with extensive experience and industry knowledge, as well as representatives from the public sector in Colombia and the region, among them the official opening of the President of Colombia, Dr. Iván Duque. ALTA’s AGM and Airline Leaders Forum is the most important in person meeting of commercial [...]

Source: ICAO Ministers, Deputy Ministers and the heads of 24 international organizations completed a comprehensive review of pandemic-driven priorities for global air transport today, formalizing new commitments on border risk management and vaccination approaches, building air transport back better for sustainability and future pandemic resilience, and other key priorities aimed at accelerating air tourism and trade recovery and reconnecting the world. The agreements were enshrined in a new Declaration they adopted as the key outcome of ICAO’s High-level Conference on COVID-19, which completed today after nine days of intensive virtual multilateralism. The new ministerial Declaration, adopted in the presence of over 50 Ministers and Deputy Ministers, recognizes the severity of the COVID-19 crisis for civil aviation, and its cascading impacts [...]