The UN International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Governing Council has established a new COVID-19 aviation recovery task force to coordinate global efforts to rescue international air transport, the agency said Wednesday.
The council body will leverage government and industry data toward solutions to challenges being felt in the aviation sector, and toward priorities to be addressed to reboot the network for a post-COVID world and make it more resilient and responsive in the process, the ICAO said in a news release.
The new body consists of ICAO council members and high-level aviation industry representatives, while the World Health Organization, the World Tourism Organization, and heads of several national and regional avia administrations are also represented, according to the UN agency.
“Air connectivity is critical to economic and sustainable development in every region of the world,” ICAO Council President Salvatore Sciacchitano said at a meeting of the task force on Wednesday.
“An effective recovery of international air transport is essential to support the post COVID-19 pandemic worldwide economic recovery,” he said.
The task force is expected to offer its first outcome by the end of May, said the ICAO.
The ICAO was created in 1944 to promote the safe and orderly development of international civil aviation throughout the world.
Source: Xinhuanet
