Although EAA expects to be well positioned to carry on with AirVenture in 2021, association chairman Jack Pelton says a COVID-19 vaccine may have to be fully fielded to return the event to its pre-2020 size. Before canceling the 2020 show, Pelton said the association examined every conceivable option to pull it off using physical distancing and intense sanitization, but all were deemed too risky. “We don’t have a solution that would let you do that. There are so many people and so many touch points. If you look at our shower houses in the campgrounds, the porta potties, the food courts. We believe that it is currently not doable,” Pelton said in a wide-ranging video interview on Friday.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/pelton-2021-airventure-may-turn-on-covid-19-vaccine