Every
time two countries announce an air travel
bubble, one of them will see a spike in corona cases closer to the flight
date, dashing hopes of paid travellers, who would nevertheless be consoled that they would be given first priority for the next fight if they were not to cancel their booking.
On the one occasion when the air travel
bubble hypothesis was apparently proved
wrong, the decades-old Soviet plane that was carrying a few dozen
Russian mercenaries and terrorists was never heard again after take-off—had the ATB hypothesis struck in a more deadly form?