Originally Posted by
BRITINJAPAN4
There is so much to find at fault in this thread its tough to know where to start but ;
Why only US airlines
No airline will remove seats
the world will go back to normal at least in terms of restaurant seating and airline seating etc etc etc, they more it changes, the more it will stay the same, already in China , life is getting back to normal and it will step by step everywhere.
Just to clarify
1. I only mentioned US airlines because that's the context that I'm familiar with, I don't want to presume about areas of the world I'm less familiar with (shocker for FT, I know).
2. I agree, no airlines will remove seats. (I was saying that in the short term, the digital seating chart/seat assignments might be changed to spread out people, without making any physical changes).
3. Eventually, yes the world will go back to normal. But again, coming from the US, where we were not as aggressive as China in monitoring and containing the virus, I expect the situation to last longer here than it has in China. (And when there are some parts of the world shut down, and some open, to me that likely means there will still be a patchwork of international travel restrictions, at least until there's a feasible cure/vaccine).