The COVID-19 pandemic plunged the Calgary Airport Authority into debt and erased a quarter century of passenger growth, and it will likely take up to five years to recover, officials said Monday. YYC went from servicing 18 million passengers in 2019 to 5.7 million over just six months in 2020, which president Bob Sartor said represents a decrease in activity not seen since the mid-1990s. With ongoing travel restrictions and a slow start to Canada's vaccine rollout, the airport authority is projecting that relief will not come to the sector this year — in fact, Sartor said that it is expecting further decline.
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