I remember the moments of my youth. I remember the birds that landed unabashedly in my hand. It was the time of a song, hardly disturbed by the passage of a Caravelle. We were already dreaming that we were going far, very far away! At the time of Concorde, flying seemed to be an adven- ture against time, reserved for a financial elite. The Paris-New York trip was completed in record time. Madame could go shopping at Saks and be back in a day. It was a time that people under twenty will never have known. On 25 July 2000, the Concorde crash at Roissy killed 113 people! And the myth of the plane that flew faster than the sun collapsed. Back to safer values such as the Airbus A 380, the
Airbus A320, the Boeing 747, the Boeing 787... Back to reason. With the pandemic, airline companies, deprived of pas- sengers are in the red: massive job cuts... In addition to its record loss of 12 billion dollars in 2020, Boeing is assuming a debt of 61 billion! As for Airbus, its helicop- ter division held up in 2020 with 268 orders and contri- buted to the group's cash flow. So will the airline industry enter into a war of numbers to the point of forgetting the essential fact that people want to travel? Should air travel be more regulated? The earth is round and the little bird that landed on my hand would also be wondering. Planes are still flying and that's good!
~C L A S S & R E L A X L I F E S T Y L E M A G A Z I N E - 2021 ~
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