{"id":18298,"date":"2020-12-21T18:13:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T10:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=18298"},"modified":"2021-06-21T16:05:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T08:05:13","slug":"planes-in-quarantine-editors-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2020\/12\/planes-in-quarantine-editors-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Planes in Quarantine \u2013 Editor\u2019s Note"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The global aviation industry has been hit hard by the\nCOVID-19 pandemic. Airlines were expected to suffer a roughly 60 per cent\nplunge in passenger numbers in 2020, according to the International Air\nTransport Association (IATA).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fleets of planes are parked in airports and countless\njourneys have been cancelled. Hong Kong’s flag carrier, Cathay Pacific\nstruggles to survive the pandemic. The airline cut a total of 8,500 jobs and\nshut down its subsidiary, Cathay Dragon. The carrier received a HK $39 billion\ngovernment cash injection to sustain its operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IATA\u2019s analysis issued in April shows that some 25\nmillion jobs are at risk of disappearing with plummeting demand for air travel.\nEmployees in the industry are living in the fear of job loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this issue of Varsity, we try to examine the changes\nand challenges faced by the aviation industry in Hong Kong, China, and South\nKorea in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Varsity\u2019s Periscope section reporters talk to flight\nattendants and pilots who are facing unprecedented challenges such as changing\ntheir lifelong career due to the pandemic. We also speak to aviation\ntechnicians and aviation-major students who face a challenging time in their job hunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this issue, Varsity also looks into other social issues such as \u201cPeriod Poverty\u201d in China, VPN use by Chinese students of overseas universities who are now trapped at home, and the podcast industry boom in Taiwan. We also cover new players in the delivery service industry who want to boost the yellow economy and introduce \u201cbulimia\u201d, a potentially life-threatening eating disorder. Our People section features great stories of a Hong Kong film director Chow Kwun-wai, a Mainland Chinese pornstar June Liu, a South Korean drag queen, and Kang Jung-hwa, a veteran nurse who was infected by COVID-19. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enjoy the read and wish you all the best in the coming 2021!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lasley Lui<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Managing Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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