Opinion: Why Canceling The 2021 Paris Air Show Was A Good Move

crowd at 2019 Paris Air Show
A full-scale model of the French/German/Spanish new-generation Future Combat Air was unveiled during the 2019 Paris Air Show.
Credit: Eric Piermont/AFP/Getty Images
Among the gut-punch moments for aviation in 2020, few announcements hit as hard as the Dec. 7 cancellation of the 2021 Paris Air Show. It was understandable when the Farnborough Airshow was canceled last July as COVID-19 was rampaging across Europe and the Americas, but the announcement that Le...

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