Covid-19 Pandemisinin Dünya’da ve Türkiye’de Havayolu Taşımacılığına Etkisi

Abstract

Increasing international trade with the effect of globalization has brought air transportation to an important point with the increasing importance of speed. The aviation industry is a very convenient industry to be affected by global events. With the first Covid-19 case encountered in Wuhan, China in 2019, the world faced a new infectious disease. Covid-19, which was declared as a global disaster transmitted by contact, affected all sectors as well as the air transport sector in a negative way. It is seen that the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the whole world, as well as Turkey, socially and economically. The Covid-19 epidemic affected the world at the beginning of 2020, with the closure of borders and travel restriction, as well as many sectors, and the aviation sector had extremely negative reflections. The pandemic has created a domino effect among flight cancellations, travel restrictions, ticket refunds, subsidiaries and passenger, and airlines have faced a health crisis. The negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the aviation sector have manifested themselves in different dimensions as passenger transpotation of the airline sector decreaed during the pandemic period, Cargo and freight transportation did not experience the same decrease in terms of raising basic needs and medical supplies. In this study, the effect of the Covid-19 epidemic on air transport in the world and in Turkey has been examined. In this context, the negative reflections of the Covid-19 epidemic on the sector were revealed and the extent to which the air transport sector was affected by this health crisis was examined.