Canada's largest airline continues to cut capacity! Why did the aviation industry end up in such a situation?

Toronto, China 65438+ 10/4 (Reporter Yu Ruidong) Air Canada, Canada's largest airline, announced on June 65438+ 10/3 that it would cut its capacity by another 25% in the first quarter of this year. This will cause about 1700 employees to be laid off. Why did the aviation industry end up in such a situation? Because the epidemic has spread repeatedly around the world, domestic and foreign tourism has been greatly affected, and fewer people travel abroad. So the aviation industry has been hit hard, but I believe it will recover after the epidemic. There is only a temporary solution at present. Let's take a look at the specific reasons:

COVID-19 nucleic acid test is required for registration.

As we all know, during the period of COVID-19, international airlines paid more attention to COVID-19's nucleic acid detection, regardless of major national examinations or travel. Of course, some passengers actively cooperated with the inspection, but many passengers did not cooperate with the inspection. Most of them were temporarily asked by the staff to go on a business trip or forgot to bring the nucleic acid test. Within four days of the implementation of this regulation in Canada, airlines have refused 363 unqualified passengers to board the plane.

Canada has proposed such a regulation, which will make many passengers go out by plane less and take other means of transportation instead. There seems to be no request for nucleic acid testing in high-speed railway station at present. After all, nucleic acid testing costs at least 100 yuan in rural areas, which many people can't afford. You can do it alone. It's really unbearable for a family to go home for tests. Moreover, the Chinese New Year is coming, and the money earned by ordinary people has to be prepared for the New Year.

Aviation industry hit by epidemic situation

The epidemic has dealt a heavy blow to Air Canada. Canada's production capacity in the first quarter of this year is equivalent to about 20% of the profit in the same period of 20 19, which is really terrible. As a result, Canada has cut about 65,438+0,700 employees, and about 200 employees of its Express Airlines have also been affected. But also reduced the number of domestic and international routes, further adjusted reasonable flight arrangements to meet demand and reduced cash consumption. At the same time, the company also froze recruitment. The decision that the company can make in this situation is actually understandable. After all, it is all about survival.

Looking at the whole epidemic situation, the aviation industry should be the hardest hit, because at this time, many people will choose to stay in their own countries, unless someone wants to return to China, because China is so wonderful, and I hope that the epidemic situation will pass quickly and the aviation industry in the past will recover as soon as possible.