It’s a matter of fun — and affordability — over fear.

As air travel becomes increasingly precarious with flight cancellations and country-wide quarantines amid the coronavirus pandemic, some young people are taking advantage of cheaper tickets.

“I feel like if the coronavirus would get even more serious and like wipe out a large amount of people, I might as well be somewhere having fun,” 20-year-old Ashley Henkel tells NBC of her recent decision to book three cheap summer flights. The resident of California’s Central Valley has decided not to let the virus drive her into self-quarantine, but instead enable her to scratch her itch to travel.

There’s “no fun in staying at home and being all worried,” says Henkel, who’s looking forward to her freshly planned trips to Vancouver, British Columbia, New York and Portland, Ore.

And she’s not alone in capitalizing on ticket prices slashed by fear relating to the deadly virus, for which more than 1,000 have already tested positive in the US.

Guy Monahan, 31, tells The Post he’s taking advantage of rapidly dropping airfare to score cheap flights to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Japan this July.

“I’ve been tracking — It was a $1,000 round-trip a few months ago but is $800 now,” the Queens-based drone engineer says, adding that he’s hopeful tickets to the event itself may be easier to get due to the virus.

“And if it is cancelled, I can still go to Japan,” Monahan tells The Post. “I don’t think it would affect me too bad. The flight might be rough though, ha.”

Some fearless fliers are even taking to social media to brag about the good deals they’ve booked thanks to COVID-19 panic.

“You really think Coronavirus is gonna stop me booking a holiday and catching a flight?” Jack Mulligan, 29, tweeted Monday after he saved more than $350 on a May jaunt to the Dominican Republic.

The Manchester, England, resident later told NBC he agrees “the coronavirus is clearly something people need to be wary of, but I don’t plan on putting my life on hold because something is going around.”

For others, reduced airfare makes previously unaffordable reunions possible.

“If I die, I die. I miss my family,” 27-year-old Capri Nicole tells the outlet of the flight she just saved some $200 booking from Atlanta to Connecticut, so she can see her grandma on her 71st birthday.

Coronavirus map: confirmed cases in the US

Some appear to find nihilistic amusement in the suddenly increased risk and decreased price of travel: “[You’re] telling me I can travel for so cheap with a pretty good chance of dying?” tweets one fan of price cuts. “Sign me up les [sic] go baby.”

Meanwhile, other adventurous travelers are just determined to get more bang out of their bucks.

“I just bought a flight to Berlin for 60 quid mate!” University of Edinburgh masters student Omar Hamdoun tells The Post, boasting he spent just $77 on what would usually be an at least $180 flight by buying it during the coronavirus fallout.

The 25-year-old was already planning on traveling in Europe this summer, but now he wants to do so more extensively. “I think I’m going to buy two more, maybe even three more flights,” he says of his June vacation.

Hamdoun says his friends are also taking advantage of the crazy low prices — and he doesn’t fear the virus.

“I mean, I was born in the Bronx and I’m of Arab stock — corona couldn’t handle me even if it tried,” he says.