"Then there's the real possibility of a near 100% collapse of the airline industry..."

We can only hope!

I'll happily pay $4 or more for gas if it means the bitter end to that government-sponsored anit-trust violation called the airline industry that has been defrauding travelers of their time, their money, and their civil rights for decades -- all in the name of "safety" -- yet which curiously 7 years ago this September missed all the muslim hijackers, all the weapons they smuggled aboard, all the contingency plans that could have dealt with the situation once they knew several planes had been hijacked, and instead sat back and watched like the deer-in-the-headlights bureaucrats that they are while cave men from a third-world nation flew commercial airplanes full of submissive, obedient "customers" who mistakenly believed that "airline security" meant something other than "you passengers had better obey our ticket agents and flight attendants, no matter how bad they screw you, or else we'll strand you in an airport hundreds of mile from home while we charge you with federal crimes" into commercial and government office buildings, killing thousands of people, destroying entire city blocks, and sending our nation into an economic recession and a protracted war in the middle east that continues to this day.

Like I said, we can only hope!