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Chapter 4
Digitalization and the Impacts of COVID-19 on the Aviation Industry
In this transportation model, aviation businesses have abandoned cost-increasing additional services and focused on providing lower prices and lean service. In order to reduce costs, they use aircraft more effectively, operate at secondary airports, eliminate free in-flight catering and services, and attach importance to the use of technology.
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The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of Aviation
Salim Kurnaz (Istanbul Aydın University, Turkey) and Deimantė Žilinskienė (Kazimieras Simonavičius University, Lithuania)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-2319-6.ch004
Abstract
The aviation industry, which gained momentum in the 20th century, has become one of the pioneers of the transportation industry in the 21st century. Thanks to the speed of technological developments, this great and rapid development increases the importance of the sector day by day. This rapid growth in the aviation sector has been interrupted from time to time due to world wars, economic, or social crisis. Lessons learned from the crises are important factors that enable one to be prepared for future crises. For this reason, it is considered that it will be useful to examine the damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to the aviation sector and to reveal the right and wrong practices made during the emergence of the pandemic.
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