CAPA Live: can Brazil offer clues as Latin America opens?

This report is based on material presented at CAPA Live on 14-Oct-2020. (The next monthly CAPA Live will be on 11-Nov-2020).

Much of the world has some sort of recovery scenario from COVID-19, but Latin America is different.

A significant portion of the region has remained closed off to air travel, starting in Mar-2020, and the restart process has been occurring during the past couple of months. The next few weeks will be crucial to gauge Latin America's path to recovery.

One country that has remained open during the pandemic is Brazil. Its passenger levels, while low, are starting to climb, and two of its largest operators have been adding capacity back at a solid rate.

However, traffic still remains solidly depressed, and Brazilian airlines and other operators in Latin America may have to join their counterparts worldwide in engaging in testing schemes as a means to accelerate a recovery in demand.