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Correct. >> let me clarify the word "bonkers." that does not actually apply to the airplane experience. your colleagues have been fantastic. they have had to deal with an uptick of behavior issues they literally had to duct tape a woman who was have some sort of a mental breakdown. she was trying to open the door on the flight, saying i've got ton on this plane. >> yeah. everyone needs help right now. we need people to be helpers. our workload is much higher, because we're helping a lot more, but then you have people

Course, that's there's a random aspect to some of the security. not necessarily the most reassuring thing. but i will say we did see a lot of military police officers around. supposedly they have 40,000 combined military and police here in sochi. when the u.s. hosted the salt lake city olympics which was right after the september 11th attacks, they had about 13,000 police and military on the ground there. so a big difference here if you believe the actual official account. i have to say, after my airplane experience, i'm taking everything a little bit not quite as face value. >> it answers the...

Seats. i guess they're slimming them down for more profit, right? >> i don't get it. we're all getting bigger, but somehow the seats are getting smaller. the big u.s. airlines are taking out the old bulky seats in favor of these so-called slim line models that take up less space from front to back and that, believe it or not, allows for maybe five or even six more seats on each plane which obviously means more paying passengers and a smaller fuel bill as well because the seats are slightly lighter. but to add insult to injury, guess what, these new seats generally have thinner padding as well ...