Across Metro Manila and the urban centers of Luzon, these scenes are beyond depressing:

Airplanes are idle on the hangars, watched over by security personnel with barely an idea of what these giant flying machines are worth and what commercial value each of the seats holds when the planes are soaring into the skies. In a desperate race to curb the spread of the virus, countries have closed their borders and with that came the suspension of air travel and the idling of the planes.

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