In April, at a time when the U.S. federal government had maximum and unwarranted expectations about the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, a U.S. federal payroll program was introduced. $25 billion for the country’s airline industry.
The 4 largest operators earned the maximum of funds, but smaller players were also eligible for assistance. So far, the Canadian government has resisted the concept of a global rescue plan for the country’s airlines.
There was some hope that if the pandemic evolved similarly in some countries, it would not be affected for a long period of time. Canada-based airlines recently began promoting the “intermediate seat,” which had been banned from practicing physical distance within the aircraft, because the number of cases shown with COVID-19 was shrinking in the maximum provinces.
A few weeks later, the epidemic curves in Canada and the United States are not the same. The border remains closed to all to the maximum of ferries, and adventure is a delicate matter if those arriving are forced to isolate themselves for 14 days.
Some Canadian provinces are actively urging others to stop in their territories, but that would probably not be enough to help everyone. The frustration of the industry staff is understandable.
In the United States, only 21% of Americans are able to ship a cruise before a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available. Same proportion (21%) would take a plane flight to another continent.
Fewer than 3 in 10 Americans would take a bus longer than 3 hours (25%) or a flight to Canada (28%) without adequate vaccination against COVID-19.
The numbers are slightly higher for five other types of travel: a bus of less than 3 hours (31%), a flight to some other state (34%), a ferry (also 34%), a plane flight in a state. (35%) and an exercise adventure (36%).
In the United States, women are much less likely to need it in any form than men. Americans over the age of 55, who are essential for tourism abroad, don’t seem in a bad mood to have their passports at their fingertips: only 11% would board a cruise ship shipped without a vaccine and only 14% would fly to some other country. Continent.
Republicans, who have been as consistent as the current president of the United States in downplaying the existing pandemic, are more likely to say they will, but not in overwhelming numbers. Less than a part (42%) says he would fly to another state without the COVID-19 vaccine.
In Canada, despite a greater number of willing travelers, we also see a majority of citizens giving up travel. For Canadians, the safest form of transportation today is the ferry, and 35% of respondents said they would take this mode of transportation before the COVID-19 vaccine is ready.
The proportion of potential tourists drops to 21% for a plane flight to some other continent and 20% for a bus adventure of more than 3 hours. The maximum threats to Canadians are a flight to the United States (only 17% would do so without vaccinations) and a cruise shipment (only 13%).
Both countries continue to see the vaccine as the ideal solution to all our recent setbacks. The industry is beginning to adapt to the present, but the current scenario is bleak. Governments and the fitness government have not had the same good luck in the face of the pandemic, and Canadians and Americans are not yet in a position to become tourists.
Mario Canseco is president of Research Co.
The effects are based on online studies conducted from July 1 to July 5, 2020, with representative patterns of 1,000 adults in Canada and 1,200 adults in the United States. Knowledge was statistically weighted based on Canadian and U.S. census figures. By age, gender and region of the country. The margin of error, which measures the variability of patterns, is about 3.1 percentage for Canada and roughly 2.8 percent for the United States.