The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that global air transport recovered 94.1 % of its 2019 passenger traffic last year, indicating a “strong upturn” in the wake of the pandemic.

In the fourth quarter of 2023, the frequency of aircraft, calculated in terms of paid passenger-kilometres (RPK), reached 98.4 % of the levels of the same period four years ago. IATA, which brings together 320 airlines representing 83 % of world air traffic, said in its monthly statistics that this translates into a “strong recovery” by the end of the year.

Border closures and other travel restrictions imposed since March 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, had devastating effects on passenger air transport, which fell that year to 34.2 % compared to the 2019 level, according to the agency.

The recovery did not come until 2021, when 41.6 % of the pre-pandemic level was reached, and in 2022, with 68.5 %.

“The strong recovery from the pandemic continued into 2023,” said IATA Director General Willie Walsh, quoted in a statement. This augurs a “return to normal growth patterns by 2024. The recovered health of the travel industry is good news.”

The activity was again boosted by domestic routes, which in 2023 reached 103.9 % of their 2019 RPK, according to IATA. The trend accelerated with the end of movement restrictions in China, after three years of stringent measures, where domestic flights reached 107.1 % of 2019 levels.

Latin American Airlines posted the strongest year-on-year performance of all regions, with a 2.0 % increase in demand in 2023 compared to 2022 (+1.9 % for international operations).

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Thousands of migrants without money, or people who lost their jobs due to the Covid-19 pandemic in Southeast Asia, are victims of forced recruitment by cybercriminal mafias under threats.

According to a report by the UN Human Rights Office, thousands of people are recruited by online criminal gangs who, taking advantage of their need for money, threaten families and drag them into perpetuating cybercrime.

It has been estimated, according to a reliable source, about 120,000 people in this situation in Burma, as well as about 100,000 in Cambodia. More cases are not ruled out in Laos, the Philippines and Thailand.

Migrants who do not have money for their subsistence and to attend to the needs of their families are the ones who are normally captured by these mafias and forced, under threats and inhumane treatment, to commit crimes on the Internet, particularly in illegal games, cryptocurrencies scams, fraudulent dating apps, among others.

In this sense, the UN High Commissioner, Volker Turk, considers that these people are victims, not criminals. He pleads for them to be treated that way, given that they are coerced into carrying out these jobs.

The mafias take great advantage of the people they hire by force, since they usually have a university education, speak other languages ​​or have knowledge of the Internet.

Beyond the policies of Southeast Asian countries to combat cybercrime, there are always vulnerabilities and sometimes international standards are not met. Therefore, the victims of this type of abuse can go unnoticed, in addition to being the ones who are normally arrested for online crimes.

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The German government approved the 2024 budget project with significant cuts compared to the current year, government sources reported to dpa this Wednesday.

After long deliberations, the federal Cabinet decided to present a budget of 445.7 billion euros (484.5 billion dollars) to the Parliament (Bundestag). The 2023 budget amounts to 476.3 billion euros.

After the additional expenses of the previous years due to the coronavirus pandemic and the energy price crisis, it has now been decided to adopt an austerity course.

The new indebtedness will be 16,600 million euros in 2024. This is intended to comply with the debt brake anchored in the Fundamental Law (Constitution), which limits state indebtedness to 0.35 % of gross domestic product (GDP), except in exceptional situations such as those of recent years.

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The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, indicated that the Government’s forecast is that the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will grow up to 4 % in the whole of 2023.

During his morning conference, the president highlighted the good performance of the Mexican economy. “We are getting up in relation to the situation prior to the pandemic. Mexico, unlike other countries, is showing progress.”

In addition, the president has also highlighted that he has done “very well” in terms of employment in the first quarter of the year, with an average salary that is “record.”

“This is also good data. Unemployment has fallen like it hasn’t been seen in 20 years. We are among the countries with the lowest unemployment in the world,” the president stressed.

Mexico’s GDP grew by 1 % in the first quarter of this year compared to the fourth quarter of the previous year, while the increase was 3.7 % compared to the first quarter of 2022.

Looking at the year 2023 as a whole, the OECD forecasts that the Mexican economy will grow by 1.6 %, while both ECLAC and the World Bank have a more negative forecast of 1.1 % and 0.9 %, respectively.

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Almost 6.7 million tourists visited Mexico in March of this year, which is 17.8% more than in the same month of the previous year, when slightly less than 5.7 million people traveled to the country, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) of Mexico.

This figure is one of the highest in the last two years, only behind the month of December 2022, when more than 7.2 million travelers were in Mexico. In addition, to date, March has been the month of 2023 in which the country has received the highest number of tourists.

Of the total of 6.7 million, more than 3.5 million were international tourists, 7.9% more than in March of the previous year. Of these, more than 2.4 million came from countries that did not share a border with Mexico, air transport being the main route of entry into the country.

However, and despite the fact that total spending has increased by 9% compared to March 2022, average spending per visitor has fallen to 7.4%. In total, each tourist would have spent an average of $435.42, compared to $470.43 the previous year.

In terms of total spending, this would have risen to 2.91 million dollars. Of this figure, more than 2.5 million dollars came from tourists with whose countries Mexico does not share borders.

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Air passenger traffic in Latin America reached 31.3 million people transported in January, which is equivalent to 96.4 % of the figure registered in the same month of 2019, prior to the pandemic.

Thus, according to the monthly report prepared by the Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA), air traffic in the region slowed down compared to the immediately previous month, when it reached pre-pandemic levels.

In addition, January 2023 was the first month in which another region led the recovery of passengers, this being Africa. Thus, Latin America moved to second place, closely followed by the Middle East and North America, which both registered 95.7 % recovery.

The regions of Europe and Southeast Asia were further behind, although with the reopening of China, it is expected that at least the latter will improve its recovery levels.

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World air traffic reached 68.5 % of its level prior to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2022, according to the International Air Transport Association (Iata).

According to the organization, which brings together 300 airlines representing 83% of world traffic, domestic routes returned to 79.6% of their 2019 level, while international traffic, the most affected, multiplied by 2.5 and reached 62.2% of its pre-pandemic level.

Iata CEO Willie Walsh says the industry left 2022 much better off than it entered it, as most governments lifted Covid-19 travel restrictions and people took advantage of travel. Furthermore, Walsh notes that this dynamic is likely to continue into 2023 despite the overreaction of some governments to China’s reopening.

According to Iata, many countries have implemented covid tests for travelers from China, where a major epidemic rebound occurred after restrictions were lifted. The organization called this practice impulsive and ineffective.

In 2023, air traffic is expected to reach 85.5% of its pre-pandemic level.

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China opens its borders for the first time this Sunday after almost three years of isolation and takes another step towards the end of its ‘Covid Zero’ policy designed to stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

As of this Sunday, China will not require a quarantine period for people arriving in the country, but it will continue to require a negative Covid-19 test carried out in the last 48 hours.

At this time, a wave of Chinese residents is expected to return to the country on their way home. Thus, the first preparations for the reopening of the borders of the Asian country have been seen.

According to the Chinese newspaper Global Times, the authorities have intensified their efforts at the borders of the city of Shenzhen pending the reopening with the neighboring region of Hong Kong, which has included carrying out drills, examining of the equipment and decoration of the stalls that will welcome the expected influx of passengers.

Covid-19 tests for passengers from China

On the other hand, the explosion of Covid-19 cases in China, derived from the withdrawal of most of the restrictions imposed throughout the pandemic, has generated concern worldwide, leading countries around the world to impose new controls. for travelers from the Asian giant.

Thus, as China has begun to relax its restrictions, a greater number of countries have joined these weeks in requesting negative tests for travelers from China.

In this sense, Spain may deny entry to third-country nationals arriving through direct flights from any airport located in China from this week until February 15 if they do not provide a digital EU Covid Certificate or equivalent or negative diagnostic tests. based on public health reasons, according to a resolution on restrictions at foreign air borders of the Ministry of the Interior published this Wednesday in the Official State Gazette (BOE).

Similarly, at an urgently called meeting of the European Union’s Health Security Committee (HSC) in late December, EU member states agreed to maintain “active surveillance” in the face of the apparent explosion of coronavirus infections. in China, and from which came the commitment to keep in touch to examine possible joint initiatives.

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The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, offered good feelings regarding the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic and assured that, if it is worked properly, this will be the year in which the public emergency is officially over.

“We are now entering the fourth year of the pandemic with a world that is in a much better situation than it was a few years ago, thanks to clinical care and the management of vaccines and treatments”, the expert assessed.

On the other hand, he assured that “for most of 2022, Covid-19 was in decline, vaccination increased and sustained progress was made in access to vaccines by low-and middle-income countries that had been forgotten in 2021 due to to vaccine nationalism.”

Tedros recalled that last week the WHO approved for the first time two generic drugs against the virus (nirmatrelvir and ritonavir), produced by an Indian pharmaceutical company, which will increase access to less developed countries to treatments.

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The secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury, Janet Yellen, is confident that the inflation rate will be “much lower” by the end of next year, while she has not ruled out the risk of a double-dip recession in the world’s leading economy.

“There is a risk of a recession,” she said during an interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes” program, where she argued that she does not expect an economic contraction to be necessary to reduce inflationary pressures.

In this sense, Yellen said that a substantial slowdown in growth is taking place, after the strong recovery after the pandemic, with a healthy labor market, households and companies in good position and a banking system in good health.

In this way, she pointed out that shipping costs have been reduced and delivery delays have been shortened, while fuel prices are falling. “I think we will see a substantial reduction in inflation in the next year.”

Also, despite the uncertainty, Yellen expressed high hopes that the job market remains healthy enough for people to be comfortable with their finances and their personal economic situation.

On the other hand, the US Treasury Secretary warned that Washington is willing to continue sending military aid to Ukraine “for as long as it is necessary.”

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