Risks, resilience, and pathways to sustainable aviation: A COVID-19 perspective.

COVID-19 Climate change Resilience Risk State aid Vulnerability

Journal

Journal of air transport management

ISSN: 1873-2089

Titre abrégé: J Air Transp Manag

Pays: England

ID NLM: 101765683

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Oct 2020

Historique:

received: 27 05 2020

revised: 23 08 2020

accepted: 02 09 2020

entrez: 21 9 2020

pubmed: 22 9 2020

medline: 22 9 2020

Statut: ppublish

Résumé

This paper discusses the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to reconsider the foundations of the global aviation system. There is much evidence that air transport creates opportunities as well as risks. While the former accrue to businesses and individuals, risks are imposed on society. Pandemics, in which aviation has a role as a vector of pathogen distribution, as well as the sector's contribution to climate change are examples of long-standing negative externalities that continue to be ignored in assessments of aviation's economic performance and societal importance. As commercial aviation has shown limited economic resilience throughout its history, this short paper questions whether a return to business-as-usual, supported by very significant State aid payments, is desirable. The volume growth model championed by industry and aviation proponents may have to be replaced with an alternative model of a slimmed air transport system that is economically less vulnerable and accounting for its environmental impacts.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2020.101933 PMID: 32952322 PMC: PMC7492147

pubmed: 32952322

doi: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2020.101933

pii: S0969-6997(20)30516-0

pmc: PMC7492147

doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

101933

Informations de copyright

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