You may just think that being cramped is a simple personal space violation - uncomfortable and inconvenient. The truth is that it's more serious than that - especially when it comes to airline travel. The effects of overcrowding on grounded and boarding planes has everything to do with air quality. We all emit CO2 when we exhale, and CO2 can build to reach toxic levels if there are too many people in a small and poorly ventilated space.

When we're all boarding the plane, huffing and puffing to get our luggage into the overhead compartments, there is a large number of people and personal space is at a minimum. The ventilation systems, powered by the aircraft's engines, are turned off. And because there are more passengers now than ever on most flights, the CO2 levels are reaching all time highs. Read more about this danger by exploring the pages of SuffocatingTraveler.com.

The need for personal space is something of an evolutionary trait. We protect ourselves by being aware of our surroundings, using our neuro-senses, and without adequate distance from those surroundings we lack the required reaction time to respond to them. Huge crowds of people and personal space shortages are commonplace on today's airline flights, and because of our evolutionary development, that's making us severely uncomfortable. The airlines, however, don't seem to care that we're packed into the cabins like sardines. When they could be making more money by adding a few more seats, why would they want to worry about the effects of overcrowding? It's time we stood up for our basic airline passenger rights, like the right to space, and told the airlines and their regulating agencies that enough is enough. Learn more about how to do this by exploring the pages of SuffocatingTraveler.com!