Greetings Squeakr,
I'll say fly it. It's not so much a matter of letting them win, but me getting back to what I enjoy doing, and that is hopping on a plane. The sooner I can do that, the better. There will always be an element of risk in anything we do but I'll be better off when I catch my next flight. I've got a few more transcons in the next few weeks (same routing as one of those involved yesterday) that I plan to fly.