Dubai set for 'biggest airport show' as travel industry upbeat

Airport Show, a leading annual airport industry B2B platform, kicks off tomorrow (May 24) with 95 exhibitors and more than 100 hosted buyers from across the globe taking part on 12,000 sq m of exhibition space. The event will run until May 26 at the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) as the ICAO paints the ‘most optimistic scenario’ of the industry’s global recovery by June 2021 and the start of the journey to regain the lost pace of growth. In Q3, up to 71% of the 2019 levels, with 53% for international and 84% for domestic flights, will likely be recovered. A more pessimistic scenario foresees only a 49% recovery - 26% for international and 66% for domestic. As against 4.5b travellers in 2019, only 1.8b passengers took to the skies last year. The coronavirus pandemic led to a 50% drop in domestic passenger traffic globally and 74% in international traffic in 2020. <br/>