Don’t Touch Your Face: The Airline Industry Crashes
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A worker disinfects a Vietnam Airlines plane amid concerns of the spread of the coronavirus at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on March 3. NHAC NGUYEN/AFP via Getty Images
On today’s podcast: How airlines are responding to their biggest threat yet.
The coronavirus pandemic has already eclipsed the SARS outbreak, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the 2010 Icelandic ash cloud in terms of damage done to the airline industry. At least three airlines have collapsed, and in the United States this week, air travel was down 90 percent compared with last year, according to the Transportation Security Administration.
Don’t Touch Your Face host Amy Mackinnon is joined by Jon Ostrower, the editor in chief of the Air Current, to discuss the crisis and how air travel as we know it could be changed for good.
Further Reading:
“Confusion among U.S. airlines as airplanes fly virtually empty to get bailout funds,” The Air Current
“How coronavirus grounded the airline industry,” The Washington Post
About Don’t Touch Your Face: On the last day of 2019, China reported an unusual outbreak in Wuhan, a port city with a population of 11 million. Within two months, the disease would spread to almost every continent on the globe and kill thousands of people. From Foreign Policy, a podcast about the extent of the COVID-19 contagion, the threat it poses, and what countries are doing to contain it. Join FP’s James Palmer and Amy Mackinnon as they track the spread of the virus and explore what it means for people’s everyday lives. Have a coronavirus question for us to explore? Email it to donttouchyourface@foreignpolicy.com. See All Episodes
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