Sorry, I didn't mean to offend anyone of advanced years and to ericlday (tut tut) I did not at any point refer to 'paranoid oldies' as you claim I did. In fact the freaked out idiots you see in the street in the UK are more likely to be younger people - the actual young don't care (you're indestructible then, remember?), it's more like the 30-50 age group.
I refered to older people because of three things:
1. They make up a disproportionate percentage of the passengers on flights that keep those routes going when the working age population is, erm working (or at least they were).
2. They tend to have more money to spend on travel than younger people
3. They are most at genuine risk from this virus
What I am saying is that add 1 + 2 + 3 together and you have a pile of trouble for airlines in to the medium term.
And ZFT - I fully agree; problem is we're not allowed to live at the moment.