Originally Posted by iahflyr

Even if an effective vaccine is developed by early 2021, that is not nearly the end of this air travel downturn. That vaccine has to be manufactured for 7 Billion people, distributed, and injected into 7 Billion people. Then when that monumental task is complete, we still have the economic fallout from the largest recession in nearly 90 years.

Summer 2021 and Summer 2022 total passenger numbers will be below Summer 2019, and likely at lower revenue as well. The question becomes how much lower, and whether a combination of retirements and the VSP and ExTO programs cut costs enough to avoid furloughs.

I applaud Southwest management for their aggressive VSP and ExTO programs. I believe Southwest was in a unique position to do this on such a large scale compared to the legacy carriers due to its business model of not having much international exposure, having no large wide bodies that are fairly useless right now, and the fact that their primary customer base (leisure travelers) are traveling at higher percentages than business travelers.

Originally Posted by flyguy81

You don’t need to inject 7B for a vaccine to be effective. It’ll burn out long before that when it can’t find anyone to infect. Unless it’s like the flu and comes back every year, which we don’t know yet.

Read a article that said the US Govt prepaid
for enough vaccines for everyone in the US to get one for free when available. I highly doubt air travel in the US will be depressed because Africa/Asia still has cases...we can keep grave bans in effect for those places. It won’t stop people from going to Disney World.

Originally Posted by Ripper

And what a swan song it would be!

Originally Posted by hoover

I wonder if airlines will require their employees to get the vaccine? like how they require is to wear masks etc.

Originally Posted by hoover

I wonder if airlines will require their employees to get the vaccine? like how they require is to wear masks etc.

Originally Posted by WHACKMASTER

Very good question. There is precedent for mandatory vaccines for employment at other airlines. That doesn’t mean that some of us won’t fight it.

Originally Posted by ZapBrannigan

Maybe you'll get a choice. Vaccine, or VSP?


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Originally Posted by ZapBrannigan

Maybe you'll get a choice. Vaccine, or VSP?


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