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. 2021 Jul:94:102062.
doi: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2021.102062. Epub 2021 Apr 14.

COVID-19 pandemic and air transportation: Successfully navigating the paper hurricane

Xiaoqian Sun  1   2 , Sebastian Wandelt  1   2 , Changhong Zheng  1 , Anming Zhang  3
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COVID-19 pandemic and air transportation: Successfully navigating the paper hurricane

Xiaoqian Sun et al. J Air Transp Manag. 2021 Jul.

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze and understand the impact of the corona virus disease (COVID-19) on aviation and also the role aviation played in the spread of COVID-19, by reviewing the recent scientific literature. We have collected 110 papers on the subject published in the year 2020 and grouped them according to their major application domain, leading to the following categories: Analysis of the global air transportation system during COVID-19, the impacts on the passenger-centric flight experience, and the long-term impacts on broad aviation. Based on the aggregated reported findings in the literature, this paper concludes with a set of recommendations for future scientific directions; hopefully helping aviation to prepare for a post-COVID-19 world.

Keywords: Air transportation; COVID-19; Literature review; Pandemics.

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Fig. 1
Word cloud for all COVID-19-related papers reviewed in our study.
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Fig. 2
Airports with the largest connectivity (in terms of degree) for April 2019 against April 2020.
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Fig. 3
Evolution of the number of domestic and international flights for selected countries during COVID-19 pandemic (Data source: Flightradar24). Countries are labeled with their ISO-3 country codes. The blue color denotes domestic flights; and the green color denotes international flights. Note that passenger and cargo flights are not distinguished. (For interpretation of the references to color in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the Web version of this article.)
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Fig. 4
Difference of the air transportation country network between January 2020 and May 2020, under the impact of COVID-19 (Data source: Flightradar24).
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