Covid-19 Salgınında Türkiye’deki Hava Yolcu Trafiğinin Durumu: Sosyo-Ekonomik Açıdan Bir Değerlendirme
The Situation of Air Passenger Traffic in Turkey in the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Socio-Economic Evaluation

Author(s): Gülaçtı Şen, Erhan Bütün
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law, Socio-Economic Research, Transport / Logistics
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Aviation industry; Covid-19 Outbreak; Air Passenger Traffic; Socio-economic factors;
Summary/Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic, which emerged in the first quarter of the 21st century and negatively affected the whole world, countries' economic, political, social, etc. has caused problems. Many sectors were negatively affected by the pandemic, which was first seen in Wuhan, China in 2019 and affected the whole world in a short time. The aviation industry is one of the sectors negatively affected by the countries closing their border gates and the suspension of air traffic. Every strategic decision to be taken for the continuity of aviation activities and the survival of businesses has become important. While governments' support for businesses in the sector can be considered as a solution in the short term, what strategy will businesses implement in the long term remains a problem due to the continuing pandemic. While the pandemic continues, it is obvious that the aviation activities of the countries have increased with the start of normalization and the vaccination process worldwide. However, despite this increase in air traffic, the negative effects of the countries in terms of socioeconomic aspects will be felt in the long term. The socio-economic impact, which was carried out on the estimation of air traffic passenger numbers and ticket fees before the pandemic, started to be evaluated within the framework of different scenarios with the flight ban that occurred worldwide after the Covid-19 pandemic. Factors such as the continuation of the pandemic, the economic situation of the countries, fluctuations in ticket prices, change in the job market, changing preferences and attitudes of customers will determine the socioeconomic effects. Considering that the total economic impact of the global aviation industry worldwide has reached 2.7 trillion USD and the sector supports 65.5 million jobs, the damage caused by the Covid-19 pandemic is very significant. During the course of the world list with aviation activities in the first row in place of Turkey, it is remarkable how well it will continue to follow a path in this process. The main focus of this work, travel restrictions within the scope of the analysis of the impact on the aviation industry to collect data on air passenger traffic in Turkey in the pandemic process and to compare them with air passenger traffic in Europe. Hence, the aviation sector is of socio-economic reveals how that affected the aviation activities and to assess the socio-economic point of view in Turkey. This study, the first quarter of 2021. All the outbreaks continue to increase rapidly, the aviation sector in Turkey is the first study of the socio-economic evaluation. With the findings obtained, it is aimed that airline companies take the right decisions and determine a good policy within the scope of their exit strategies from the global crisis.

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