Welcome back, air cargo people – IATA's 'different' WCS 21 event in Dublin

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Events are back. Nearly. This week’s World Cargo Symposium in Dublin – a recent change of venue from Istanbul – is the first major international air cargo event since the pandemic and was, well, different from normal.

And in many ways, better.

But in some ways worse. Ireland still has Covid restrictions in place: mask wearing; social distancing (no hugging, no adjacent chairs in the conference); and the challenging rule of ‘no drinking while standing up’ (insert your own joke here), which ...