The Leisure Travel Lifeline

The Leisure Travel Lifeline

November 2021
32 min read
Edward Russell and Madhu Unnikrishnan

Issue Overview

Leisure, leisure, leisure. If this pandemic has taught us anything, it's that almost everything we knew about the airline industry is no longer true. Everyone has a guess on when business travel will return, but no one has a crystal ball (or, at least, not one that actually works). In the meantime, as concerns over the Delta variant recede and vaccination rates rise, holidaygoers are keeping airlines in the air. And in fact, they're literally taking business travelers' seats, with more airlines reporting that vacationers, not road warriors, are sitting up front.