The fact is that nobody has the faintest idea how the economy, the industry, or anything else will go over the next year, let alone five years. A career decision has to be on a long timescale, so disregard the 'experts' and look at the long-term historical trends. The world will get richer, gradually. Richer people travel more than when they were poor, and that is usually by air. If the turnround takes two, or five, or ten years, you need to be there when it happens.
Markets always panic and overreact (in either direction. Hang in there! And good luck!