Where the airline industry was when the music stopped

Generic airline traffic at Munich airport

Source: Munich airport

Another year of strong profit and traffic growth in 2019 for leading carriers illustrates the highs the industry had reached before the coronavirus pandemic, but offered no warning of the crisis to come that has pushed airlines to the brink.

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