Air Travel Demand Recovery In 2021 Proving Elusive | 2021年航空旅行需求回升难以实现

航空公司、机场和旅游组织希望看到的航空旅行的需求复苏，尽管复苏是缓慢的，但截至目前复苏的脚步仍难以捉摸。

The air travel demand recovery that airlines, airports and tourism organizations were hoping to see emerge this year, albeit slowly, is so far proving elusive. 

去年夏天和某些节目假期的前后确实发生了一些客流复苏的迹象，但这种情况并不持久，而且已经再次下跌了。

Upticks did occur last summer and around some holidays, but they have not been sustainable and, if anything, have reversed.

2021年的情况如此之差的主要原因有两个方面：新冠病毒的新变异为人们增加了新的担忧，导致个人和企业进一步推迟旅行行程；与此同时，政府对变异病毒的出现做出了极为谨慎的反应，例如关闭边境通常是其默认的操作。因此，即使是那些可能需要出差的人也不能去飞行，这是因为隔离/和病毒检测过于繁琐和昂贵，或者是因为政府规定禁止出差。

The main reason 2021 kicked off so badly is twofold: new variants of the COVID-19 coronavirus are adding new fears and persuading individuals and corporations to further postpone travel. Governments, meanwhile, are reacting to the emergence of new virus variants with extreme caution. Border closures are often their default action. So even those people who might be inclined to travel cannot, either because quarantine/testing mandates are too oppressive and expensive or because government rules prohibit their travel.

这使人们更加震惊航空行业在2021年将有多么艰难。

This is sending shudders through an industry already coming to terms with how hard 2021 is going to be.