"Ironically, I was interrogated at the airport for hours about my last name when I was going to present the film in America for the first time, " he wrote.

BBC: Shah Rukh Khan

But there is a danger in too much indiscriminate support: it would freeze the airlines in their present form, with their current capacity, and reduce competition, at a time when the right response is probably to shrink the industry.

ECONOMIST: The economic aftermath