The image from the article, is from a UA flight (passenger craft). I would imagine that the airlines come out of this shining through. They just got 'grants' t

The image from the article, is from a UA flight (passenger craft). I would imagine that the airlines come out of this shining through. They just got 'grants' to pay their employees not to show up to work, they are in discussion with the US DOT to merge low volume flights across competing airlines and they are picking up cargo flights. The cost of jet fuel is likely just icing on the cake. There will be reorg costs, but they will be offset by not having to pay workers for 2-3months and the extra work to support the supply problems. Unidirectional flights problem will get solved through [1] reconfiguration of flight hubs and [2] aggregation of passengers across airlines. These will shore up enough margin to make this sustaining or profitable. Airlines are logisticians!