'It's one of the worst things that can happen' – Qatar Airways CEO
Updated 23:56, 24-Jul-2020
The Agenda
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Of all the sectors most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the airline industry has been of the hardest-hit. 

Hundreds of thousands of jobs have been cut or furloughed, with billions of lost revenue in what the head of the industry's trade body IATA has described as the gravest crisis aviation has ever faced.

In this exclusive one-on-one interview, Stephen Cole talks to one of the industry's key figures, Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker, about exactly what the pandemic means for the aviation industry.