Right on Steve. and depressing for sure. Like at present, 80 % of the world commercial passenger aircraft have been lined up and have no place to go: or should say, no demand to go anywhere. All was tapered off and then most commercial passenger flights grounded and now there is little or no demand to go anywhere especially with international borders closed.
Grounded. But speaking of cruise ships too- don't say grounded! (Very hard on the hull). But most of them are also parked - like they were drydocked-with no where to go and no-one to take. All are supposed to stay home! but spread keeps going.
Back to the airline industry.. sure there is a few planes up (riders infecting each other perhaps) but most are not.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericrosen/2020/04/22/in-photos--most-of-worlds-airplanes-now-grounded-at-airports/#554d47f362d9 But slowly, some stuff is opening and maybe in time, like a few years down the road the skies will be back to once they once were prior to the covid melt down. We are personally affected in this as my son-in-law has been a pilot for almost 15 yrs and commercially for the last 8 years or so: Currently a pilot for WestJet flying the 737-800: well I guess I should say he used to be (past tense!).
Effective last month due to the covid situation and grounding and lock-down, He is in now in long term layoff status as are thousands and thousands of other pilots, flight attendants, ground crews etc etc etc. all over world.
At the rate this is going or by the forecasts or outlooks, many in this industry may never be employees of airlines again. Cargo Ops would be an option (feelers/resumes already out) but a pilot has to very high up the totem pole to be able to get in especially at this time-like 25-30 years service and up to be able to get in, There is no demand for rookies. It's all senior pilots and there are plenty of them from the Commercial passenger that are also on lay off.
So many are out on the street so to speak but they still have to live and to do that find work so many are looking for any alternate ways to make an income but all over as the unemployment rate climbs there is little employment out there due to the current situation. But others are no longer with us due to this dread.
Hopefully as our society is slowly "kick-started" or restrictions lifted, all of these things will somewhat improve but it will take a bit of time for sure. And the world as we once knew it will never be quite the same after this: unless perhaps there a total prevention type of vaccination developed and cure that removes all the social risks away from society but we have have little choice but to wait on that - and try to be hopeful looking forward that all will be worked out.