Istanbul (Turkey) (EFE).- Airlines will leave behind the losses caused by the pandemic and are expected to earn 9,800 million dollars (9,167 million euros) this year, according to the director general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA). ), Willie Walsh.
In his speech at the inauguration of the 79th IATA general assembly, which meets between today and tomorrow in the Turkish city of Istanbul, Walsh said that the sector’s income is expected to reach 803,000 million dollars (776,500 million euros .
This means that they will earn an average of 2.5 dollars per passenger, which does not even allow them to buy a subway ticket in New York, he lamented, adding that “clearly this level of profitability is not sustainable, but taking into account that, in 2020, airlines lost $76 per passenger, the speed of the recovery is strong.”