Pandemic-related shifts will cost Canadian airlines

CBC News explores five pandemic-induced issues on the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization’s pandemic declaration. Airlines were hit particularly hard from March 2020 onwards, but data shows that Canadians continued to travel domestically even as international travel was heavily restricted.

While Professor Karl Moore expects an increase in leisure travel after the pandemic, he predicts it will take more than three years for the industry to fully bounce back.