WASHINGTON, DC (Aviation Week) — Dubai Airport CEO Paul Griffiths outlines how COVID-19 will continue to impact strategy, and how he is confident its role as a major hub is secure in the recovery.

Wes Charnock, editor in chief of Routes is joined by Paul Griffiths, the CEO of Dubai Airports to be interviewed for the Air Transport Community Week.

Paul Griffiths says:

Well, I think fortunately the traffic seems to have stabilized, albeit down at a significantly lower level than we saw in 2019. But of course we’ve gone through some dramatic adjustments of our business over the last year. And I think we’re pretty confident that as the traffic builds, even if it’s slowly at first, there will be a resurgence in traffic towards maybe Q3 or Q4. And if that’s the case, then I think we will bounce back very quickly thereafter. But we’ve maintained a level of liquidity, which enables our business to continue to finance itself until we get to that point.