nazi its own its forecast later on friday well joining me now from singapore to discuss this is andrew herdman he's director general of the association of asia pacific airlines gets a have you with us on al-jazeera just say how many other airlines do you think are vulnerable to co-ops like flight be in the u.k. . well this problem started in asia and china originated in china and are spread rapidly to other markets in asia when i asked her did their original estimate a couple of weeks ago it was based on the assumption it would be more us contained within asia and that $30000000000.00 revenue impact was almost entirely going to fall on the shoulders of the chinese and other asian pacific airlines but of course the situations are entirely changed it's now spread to europe and indeed america north america and it's having a very significant impact on airline operations around the world. the impact is affecting more or less all airlines i think have to be prepared for this what so it's so you're saying then it's going to be more than a $30000000000.00 impact or what sort of figure is are you forec

now when i speak to andrew herdman about the travel restrictions across asia he's the director general of the association of asia pacific and lines and his vice kite from singapore thank you very much for joining us is no doubt serious the going to be a disruption due to the travel restrictions that saw it with singapore and lines what can travelers expect i mean singapore airlines is one of the biggest and i was in the region yes indeed it's a catastrophic situation it was pretty normal but every numbers traffic in asia fell by about 50 percent and that's deteriorated further as we go through march because more and more countries are oxy focusing on fighting the current a virus outbreaks and those the result of those the more and more borders directions to the point where now major airlines as you mentioned like so you're violence got a pacific emirates are effectively grounding their pleats they're all operating its . services to maintain connectivity to keep points right so that's a very serious situation and so what does this mean then for passengers and you know what do they do as