Any one who flies on a packed airline is a fucking idiot.

[MineralMan]

9. Yes, that's obviously true.

However, it is not the passengers who are at fault. They are not getting the information they need from the airlines, which are doing their usual thing by packing fewer planes with more passengers.

It's not the passengers who are to blame. They have a need to go somewhere. The airlines are not making that travel as safe as it should be, quite obviously.

Since I have living parents who are 95 years old and live 2000 miles away, this is a subject of some concern for me. I am the executor of their estate, and will have to fly out to California if there is a need for me to do so. If the airlines don't make it possible for me to do so safely, I will be in a very bad situation for which there is no good answer.

So, this subject is of direct concern for me.

My issue is that you are blaming the wrong people in your original post, and doing so harshly and obscenely. Those passengers are not "fucking idiots." They are people who need to get somewhere safely.

Please redirect your blame more appropriately.