The foreign airline industry organization says it will be in 2024 before global passengers return to pre-coronavirus levels, but that doesn’t necessarily apply to American baby boomers who need their vacation. Some are eating, able to go.
Sandy Stein, 69, a former Western Airlines flight attendant, said she and a friend “had a European cruise scheduled for last May.” We would gladly have left, but the cruise cancelled.
“We also have a plan for Egypt in October that we’re looking for,” said Stein, owner of Los Angeles-based Alexx Inc., which sells handbag accessories that save him the loss of keys in a purse. “If the tour continues, we’re going to go.”
On the East Coast, Phyllis Stoller runs the Women’s Travel Group, a women’s agency. She cancelled an excursion in April in Paris, paying the average payment of $4,500 to each of the 20 participants, elderly from 55 to 70.
Not only was France interrupted, but consumers are also “concerned about the lack of vaccine,” Stoller said. “Today, the factor we get the maximum is in April next year.” In addition, Stoller will perform in a touring band in March at Emirates and Oman.
“If you’re 65, you think you’re going to live another 35, but if you’re 80, you think you deserve to travel now,” Stoller said. He added that consumers are traveling in business class. “They think I don’t have much time to go, ” then, why not spend more for a comfortable seat?
There are about 71 million boomers of bathers, explained as those born between 1946 and 1964. In general, the idea of the organization is to have entered its “golden age”, explained as “the period of time between retirement and the onset of physical, emotional and cognitive activity imposed through age”, according to Wikipedia. Many travel.
For baby boomers, “there’s a sense that life is slowly running out,” said Jeff Galak, an associate professor of marketing at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper Business School. During the existing crisis, he said: “There is a sense of a lost year.
“Travel has been suppressed dramatically,” Galak said. “Once travel restrictions are lifted, and (people) feel reasonably safe, they are going to travel and you will see a spike, and I don’t think this is just a U.S. phenomenon.”
Galak said money creation plans play a role in baby boomer generation plans. “There’s an intellectual ledger that says “I’ve set aside $3,000 for this year,” he said. It is not fungible; (It) is reserved for Array »
Galak added that his parents, long island baby boomers, have postponed a 2020 to Barcelona.
Peter Gigliotti, 67, a journalist and retired communicator at Shippensburg University, runs the blog twotogo.net with his wife and offers recommendations as a hobby.
The couple canceled two cruises this year. “While I’m talking to you, we’ll be in Paris after our Rhine cruise from Zurich,” Gigliotti said on Thursday. Also cancelled: a cruise to the Hawaiian Islands in October.
“Now we’re stuck here, ” said Gigliotti. “We are frustrated. We can’t wait to get there.”
By 2021, the couple booked 4 Princess cruises, starting with a trip from San Diego to the Fort Lauderdale-Panama Canal in March.
Some lers who had booked trips to Europe this summer cancelled and instead booked villas in the Caribbean, said Stiles Bennet, president of WIMCO Villas in Newport, RI. About 95% of the company’s bookings in position for villas in Europe were cancelled due to the EU ban, Bennet said.
“Some of the visitors who have cancelled their holidays in European villas have to book electronic villas on a Caribbean island,” he said, while “some intrepid visitors have postponed e-bookings for European villas until 2021.” Bennet said many of the customers were baby boomers.
To date, there is no indication that the airline industry expects a sudden build-up of baby boomers or anyone else, at least in the short term.
On Tuesday, the International Air Traffic Association said the recovery had been slower than expected. IATA now expects global passenger traffic, measured through mileage-consistent gains, to return to pre-Covid-19 grades through 2024, a year later than expected.
The prospect for recreation is shrinking due to the low customer confidence, IATA said in a statement.
“While there is a cumulative need for VFR (visits from friends and family) and the trust of recreationalArray customers is low due to considerations about task safety and emerging unemployment, as well as the dangers of contracting COVID-19,” IATA said. “About 55% of respondents in IATA’s June passenger survey do not plan to do so by 2020.”
United Airlines expects “a slow track record from the current point request to 50% (from the previous capacity) where we will limit,” CEO Scott Kirby said last week the airline’s second quarter earnings call “And then I think there will be an immediate recovery once we reach some kind of widespread vaccine.
While United is negotiating layoffs and transitional leave with its union, the carrier must keep workers engaged “and able to recover,” Kirby said, the acquisition, when it occurs, “will be fast,” he said.
I’ve been covering airlines since 1989. I am a journalist for six newspapers: Miami Herald, Charlotte Observer, Sacramento Bee, Fresno Bee, Toledo Blade and Aberdeen (Washington).
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