"If they don't want to play a fair game,"

The government interfering existentially to shut down their business isn't quite 'fair game'.

Put another way, the government could ban travel, in which case, the airlines could theoretically offer the flight, but the consumer would have to then cancel their ticket and pay a charge, or not get anything back. Point being the government interference could run both ways.

So it's going to be a big problem clearing all of this up.