Is the Zika Virus Outbreak Expected to Lower Cost of Flights to South America? [closed]

Not the expert in this field, but in my opinion, prices will not go down. Oil prices went down big time, and ticket prices didn't change a bit. Other epidemics in the past few years did not end up making ticket prices lower.

What happens is, people are scared to go to Latin America, fine! airlines will simply make flights less to that part, and see where do people want to spend their vacations now, and add more flights to the new destinations! no one needs to make ticket prices lower.

An example, when the Arab spring started (a name for the revolution that took place an various Arab countries), Middle Eastern airlines changed their routes a bit, more flights to Europe and the far East, less flights to Egypt, Tunis, Syria. Ticket prices were never reduced, not even a cent, but since people changed their regular holidays destinations, airlines did as well.

Bottom line, IMO, airlines just started making some money because of the oil prices do you think a zika virus will make them lose that? I didn't think so. It's just changing the routes to where people demand.