With the aviation industry being one of the most affected during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important that they come back to rule the skies, but with limited destinations. So now planes are indeed flying around the world on limited international routes. This could help in reviving the aviation industry to some extent, and allow people who urgently need to travel, a chance to do so.

India is already running international flights to limited destinations, while this month China, and South Korea have both opened a travel corridor between Seoul, and ten Chinese destinations. Meanwhile Europe too is opening up its borders, and beginning to allow international flights in a restricted manner. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania had lifted their travel restrictions between them on May 15. Furthermore, reports suggest that New Zealand and Australia should be resuming flights between the two counties soon.

Creating these bubble corridors should help the aviation industry a fair bit; however, this is full of risks. As travellers from around the world, mostly from those countries with high numbers of affected patients, such as Iran, Italy can possibly travel far and wide. There is always a chance that the virus may spread further, and affect those countries that are recovering, or have been able to recover to a considerable extent.

There are no minimum health requirements that can determine if a country can open up its aviation industry yet. Individual countries are doing what they can to determine this, and most nations are setting up a 14-day quarantine period. Australia and New Zealand have been working to determine a travel safe zone, and this is a good way to tackle the issue at hand.

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Aviation industry opens up slowly, and steadily - Times of India