Massive drops in passenger numbers,travel restrictions,thousands of lost jobs, and aircraft in storage or retired - air transport news has made for gloomy reading of late.Things remain challenging, with rising COVID-19 infection rates in some countries occurring at the same time as other nations are easing lockdowns, but with vaccines rolling out, airlines are striking an increasingly optimistic note and even-dare we say it? - restoring capacity (see Snapshot: routes revival)."I see things picking up again," Emirates'president Sir Tim Clark reflected during an April 2021 Simple Flying webinar."In the shorter term there will be a bow wave of demand that will have to be accommodated in terms of capacity uplift."In March 2021 United Airlines' vice president of domestic network planning and scheduling, Ankit Gupta, reported "the strongest flight bookings since the start of the pandemic", and during Delta Air Lines' Q1 earnings call in April 2021,CEO Ed Bastian said: "In March, we had twice as many bookings as in January. Our business has made a turn."
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机译：乘客人数的大规模滴，储存或退休的运输新闻的旅行限制，千次失去的工作和飞机 - 空中运输新闻已经为黯然失色读入黯然失色。特色仍然具有挑战性，在某些国家的Covid-19感染率上升升高随着其他国家正在宽松的时间，但随着疫苗推出，航空公司正在令人愉快地迎接越来越乐观的便条，甚至敢说我们说？ - 恢复容量（参见Snapshot：路由复兴）。“我再次看到的东西，”酋长国的埃斯特·克拉克在4月2021年的简单飞行网络研讨会期间反映出来。“在较短的术语中，将有一个弓箭浪潮必须在能力隆起方面得到容纳。“3月2021年3月，美国国内网络规划和安排副总裁Ankit Gupta报道了”自大流行开始以来的最强航班预订“，在Delta Air Lines'Q1期间盈利呼叫于2021年4月，首席执行官Ed Bastian表示：“3月，我们在1月份的预订中的两倍多。我们的业务已经完成了。”
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