[C19fan]

I think the term "never" is too strong. Travel will be impacted until a vaccine is developed or this virus burns itself out.

[BobL]

Agree - it’s all in the vaccine now. Similar to Polio in that lifestyles will permanently change, until and unless a vaccine is found.

[PAR35]

Some folks wouldn’t get in a plane post 9/11. Some folks won’t get in a plane post C/19. But most folks are going to travel again.

On the business front - one can keep up with old business relationships with Zoom and WebEx, but developing new business is still going to take face to face and expensive steak dinners.

[dfwgator]

They said this back in 2009.

[pepsionice]

The landscape here is vast though. Air travel is only one component. These resorts (Hawaii, Mexico, Caribbean, Greece, Spain, etc) won’t survive two years of this. Four and five star hotels in Rome, Paris, or Barcelona? You can figure by late 2021....half of them might be entirely shutdown for a while. Same story for the cruise ship business.

With the vaccine business, I’m not convinced that it’ll be effective against ‘all’ versions of Covid-19.

[albie]

We’ve got 3 trips planned. Maine, Oak Island, NC and Aruba. All before Sep 8. I’m not letting this BS get in my way.

[lodi90]

50+ might travel less. This won’t change young people at all in the long term.

[kingu]

It’ll never be the same... until after the election.

[libh8er]

Similar things were said post 9/11 when planes were flying near empty. But Mr Chesky was probably drinking out of a bottle then.

[Caipirabob]

The vaccine will be bullshyte. They will cure the common cold first. They are still trying to find a vaccine for real nightmares such as MERS and SARS, also varieties of coronavirus. Per the studies prior to coronavirus, the look was optimistic but not in the near future. They can’t crack the code.

Even the hyped remdesevir is BS, as clinical studies rated it “superior to placebo”. Read: “Better than nothing”. It’s a scam.

[ASOC]

or the media quits hyping the disease.