By BUUMBA CHIMBULUTHE aviation industry is banking on the Covid-19 vaccine to revamp the operations which have suffered setbacks at the start this year after showing signs of recovery in the fourth quarter of 2020.Fourth quarter of 2020 showed signs of recovery but that process has been affected by the new Covid-19 variant, says Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) General Manager, Gabriel Lesa.Mr Lesa regretted that airlines such as RwandAir and Angola had stopped operations due to effects caused by the new Covid-19 variant.“By December 2020, we were looking like we are coming back but the variant changes everything. We had started making headways but then this variant has come so it is taking us back again.“But we remain hopeful. The year 2020 was very devastating but in the fourth quarter we started seeing a lot of recovery which has been disrupted,” Mr Lesa said in an interview.He however expressed optimism that the industry would recover […]
Aviation industry will rebound
