You guys are missing a key point: the airlines are providing a product that may be unsafe because that's what the flying public wants. By and large, tango flyers only care about one thing, price. If the airlines treat them too well, obviously they must have overpaid.

With most of us here belonging in a small minority with different views.

Of course a reasonable employer should have recognized that sardine can class is becoming a health issue. But it sure is convenient to look the other way.

One could argue that it's time for the government to step in. But alas that won't work either as long as some governments don't so that there remain sardine can options, for instance flying through the US.