What Form of Chaos Is Tolerable?

Easter is the traditional time for a mass exodus of UK families, who can afford an early foreign holiday. This year, that exodus has been marred by Covid19-related staff shortages at some airports; ferry terminals and Eurotunnel. The long passenger delays were especially marked at Manchester Airport. Here, the mayor suggested the police might have to be brought in, to restore calm (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-60994073). The 'views' of irrate, delayed passengers have proved newsworthy, being featured on TV and radio. There has been much talk, from 'travel gurus', of how the passenger experience can be (and will be?) improved, by getting the right people in the right places at the right time. There has, however, been virtually no discussion about whether such annual mass travel is a 'good idea'. All the recent warnings on 'greenhouse gas' emissions and climate change, seem to have hardly dented the travel plans of people in the UK. In some circles, a sense of entitlement seems to persist, aided and abetted by the 'travel industry' and the media. If the travel problems become sorted, we might, in the slightly longer-term, be simply trading one form of chaos for another?