ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 episode could be considered a crisis and thereby dismissed as a case study for aviation safety management. This chapter describes three main proposals: extending the risk analysis framework, reaching beyond risk analysis as a definition of safety to encompass coping with uncertainties, and addressing safety as part of a broader context. The extension of the risk analysis related to the COVID-19 context could again go much further than today’s operations, both in the search for hazards and in the timeframe considered for the identification of potential consequences. The COVID-19 provides an obvious illustration of the interrelation between financial and environmental aspects. Indeed, some of the financial supports provided to aviation to compensate for the dramatic reduction in traffic are subject to huge environmental efforts’ condition. The push for sustainable aviation coming from both inside and outside the aviation industry also poses challenges in the recruitment of youngsters in the domain.
