CRUCIAL CARGO. A consignment of masks, testing kits, and protective gear, a donation from Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, are unloaded from an Ethiopian Airlines cargo plane on March 24, 2020, after it arrived in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo by Tony Karumba/AFP
"We are talking here about $55 billion lost within 3 months in a year when we were supposed to see an increase in travel and air transport," she warned."There are airlines that may not survive COVID-19."Despite a steady rise in coronavirus cases, countries across Africa are forging ahead with plans to resume air traffic.
"As we are going to open...we are also now pushing for intra-African tourism," Abou-Zeid said, calling for lower taxes, reduced ticket fees, and visa facilitation to encourage"Africans to see Africa."