Declan Ryan was in New York on St Patrick’s Day 2020. “It was like a ghost town,” he says. “It was surreal. I didn’t take what was happening seriously enough back then I have to say. I just thought this was another SARS. The aviation industry has been through a couple of SARS. “I just had no understanding of it becoming a pandemic and the way it would sweep around the world. I totally underestimated it. I never thought I would see anything like this in all my days in the industry.” I am talking to him exactly one year…

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