Article Review on Aviation Industry and COVID-19

1. ARTICLE REVIEW ON AVIATION INDUSTRY AND COVID-19:
“Risks, resilience, and pathways to sustainable aviation: A
COVID-19 perspective”
American College of Technology
MASTER OF ONLINE BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
By
Abdulmenan Ahmed
ID: OMBA-239-21A
Submitted to
Dr. Buzeye Zegeye
October, 2021
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

2. Acknowledgement
The journey of this review has been the basic foundation to investigate and understand the ideas
that are written in a scholarly article. First and for most I would like to thank ALLAH for giving
me the health, patience and knowledge for successfully reading and reviewing this journal
article. I would also want to pass my sincere gratitude and appreciation for my lecturer, Dr.
Buzeye Zegeye for letting me explore this awesome learning opportunity and know how to write
a journal article review at a beginner level. Thank you so much.

3. 1. INTRODUCTION
Nowadays, article review of a journal is one of an eminent learning and teaching approach at
master and above education levels to enhance critical and analytical skills and understanding of
the learners. This to end, I have reviewed an article on Stefan Gössling. “Risks, resilience, and
pathways to sustainable aviation: A COVID-19 perspective.” Published online: 16Sep2020; 17-
54 on Journal of Air Transport Management, Volume 89. It was a great pleasure to the reviewer
to read in-depth this work and forward my understanding about it.
The review process and practices will provide me an in-depth opportunity to understand the
effect of COVID-19 on all elements of the air transport value chain. Furthermore, it discusses the
unresolved and interrelated problems in the industry such as the growing contribution to climate
change and the role in the spread of diseases on various scales. In addition, the task of the review
will create an understanding about the aviation’s poor economic performance having to show
limited economic resilience during the pandemic, continued and recurring dependence on State
aid and the suggestions on taking the crisis as an opportunity to reconsider the business model to
reduce the economic vulnerability and increase environmental sustainability.
For the successful review of this journal article, scientific and logical procedures were followed.
Accordingly, first I have read the article critically. With this background information, the review
started from the abstract of the journal article against the scientific publications. Accordingly, the
review ends up with the reference of the work done.

4. 2. ABSTRACT
The review process on the article on the journal started from the abstract. There are 151 words in
the abstract which can be taken as it has fulfilled the major citing standards. In most cases, the
most cited referencing standards APA (150-250 words), MLA (150-250 words), Harvard (100-
300) and Chicago less than 300 words. However, every paper has its own requirement, where the
scientific paper is concerned; the abstract length is limited to 250 words maximum and for
journal article it has to be limited to 75-150 words (Brown, 2019). The author has indicated what
the purpose of the study is for discussing the ways to build a resilient and sustainable aviation
industry and has presented the core ideas of the article in this section. Although the author did
not indicate the methodology used in the research, there are key words aligned just under the
abstract which will help other researchers find comprehensive results when searching for the
author’s research on search engines.
3. OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The author of the journal article has tried to articulate the overall purpose of the study under the
“Introduction” section of his study. According to the researcher, the primary objective of the
study was to determine how COVID-19 pandemic has affected the air transport system on a
global scale and the parties involved in the value chain such as the aircraft manufacturers,
airlines and other service providers together with unemployment issues. The article also
discovers the long-standing and unresolved problems in the aviation industry both on economical
and environmental level. Furthermore, the researcher has viewed the pandemic as an opportunity
to discuss an alternative model that is economically less vulnerable and accountable for its
environmental impacts. The objectives of the study in the journal are well stated.

5. 4. LITERATURE REVIEW
The journal article has tried to relate that the aviation industry is not only the sector that suffered
in the pandemic by being forced to stand still leaving all the elements in the value chain to be
affected significantly. But it is also the major player in the spread of human respiratory and other
diseases that had imposed a risk both on individual and at a global level in terms of health and
wellbeing in different period. This has resulted for States to incur costs in the prevention,
research, treatment of the disease and for recession. The sector’s contribution to global warming
and emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) has also been mentioned in the journal despite the
adoption of the Kyoto Protocol that assigned responsibility for reducing emissions through ICAO
and the presentation of CORSIA, the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International
Aviation. The understanding for those risks on individuals (in terms of health and wellbeing) or
society (in terms of climate change or the economic cost of a pandemic) is also very much
ignored by travelers, the aviation industry, and other stake holders as well as State politicians.
As indicated by the author, these two major risks are being omitted systemically since no efforts
are made to economically reflect these in balance sheets or fares. Hence the author asserted that
the risks are results of market and policy failure, which in the future disrupts the socio-economic
system affecting the society as a whole.
Nevertheless, economic interventions in the form of subsidies have been extended to aircraft
manufacturers, infrastructure providers and airlines. Together with deregulation and productivity
gains, they have contributed to capacity growth of the airlines that led the price of air transport to
decline. According to different sources noted by the author, despite the decline in the cost of air
transport with highly induced passenger traffic, profitability in the sector has been low which
questions whether commercial aviation generates positive net results.
5. METHODOLOGY
In this journal article, the author chose a qualitative approach and descriptive type of research
design. However the author did not indicate the research design, type of research and nature of
the data, data sources and data collection procedures were not adequately discussed.

6. 6. THE FINDING OF THE STUDY
The author of the journal article critically discusses that the vulnerability will be high if a return
to business-as usual is desirable in terms of social, environmental and economical point of view
if the air transport system continues to focus on volume-growth strategies with small profit
margins, stimulating traffic growth on the basis of very low fares while creating very significant
negative externalities on society.
7. HOW WELL THE CONCLUSIONS OF THE ARTICLE ALIGNED WITH THE
FINDINGS OF THE STUDY?
As far as my understanding as a reviewer is concerned, the author of this article tried to align the
conclusion with the previous findings in the area. The author mentioned that there is no
discussion made between stake holders to make the industry become more resilient and
environmentally sustainable. The author suggests that the pandemic is a convenient time for the
industry to look for ways to change in terms of increasing profitability while being desirable by
the society and also become accountable for the risks imposed to create a sustainable
environment.
8. REFERENCE
With regard to reference, the researcher used APA style which is one of the most acceptable
citation styles in scientific publication or research writing. The researcher has also stated every
inside text citation under the references list. Every cited material is complete.