Omicron could cause airlines winter ‘traumas’: Emirates

Omicron could cause airlines winter ‘traumas’: Emirates

London, 2 December (Argus) — Dubai's national airline Emirates' president Tim Clark said the Omicron Covid-19 variant could inflict "significant traumas" to the aviation industry in December, depending on how countries respond to it.

In an interview recorded for the Reuters Next event, Clark said the variant was "bound to have some effects" on the international travel recovery. He expects more clarity on the variant and whether vaccines will still be effective against it by the end of December, and said "hopefully things will "ease off".

"It could of course go the other way, if it is a variant that has sinister capabilities in terms of infections and symptoms that develop into possible hospitalisations," he said.