The airlines will use the current crisis to reduce the number of flights. Fewer seats lead to higher prices. Unfortunately, we will probably lose some discount carriers as a result of the economic pressure that is going to come to bear. Midway already has left the scene. Even if you don't use them, those carriers have acted as a discipline, by keeping fares on the majors lower than they might have been. Presumably the new "heightened heightened" security (the old "heightened" (singular) having been more effective at catching people with tickets in other people's names) may cause you to have to explain exotic routings, but I agree with the earlier statement that it's nobody's business.