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In reply to the discussion: Let's talk about airliner cabin air. [View all]DemoTex
(25,371 posts)31. Similarly, I have about 20,000 hours piloting such aircraft ..
My fellow aviator, mn9driver (I am DC9 type rated), gives good advice. The airlines can also help by reducing seating density, short-term and long-term. Some already are doing this by blocking center seat assignments on boarding passes. However, governments and manufacturers might have to get in the act, too.
I'll add - FWIW - that in my decades of flying, I never got sick that I could attribute to exposure through the aircraft environmental system, or exposure to passengers or other crew members. Not even in the days of cigarette smoke in airplane cabins. But - as always - your mileage may vary.
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I'm not aware of any US or European airline that doesn't use HEPA class filters.
mn9driver
May 2020
#8
According to the airlines, all planes are being sanitized between flights now.
oldsoftie
May 2020
#61
Cant remember when i've ever been TWO INCHES from anyone I wasnt being intimate with.
oldsoftie
May 2020
#62
Well, its not exactly unsafe. I have a friend who's flown every week with no problems.
oldsoftie
May 2020
#73
I've always thought the people were more hazardous than the airplanes.
The Velveteen Ocelot
May 2020
#13
Thanks for the accurte info for a change. I can't count the times I've had to explain that to
napi21
May 2020
#53
ALL of my friends think that. I never knew the extent of the filtering myself.
oldsoftie
May 2020
#74
NBC infectious diseases MD expert in hospital now w/C19 - blames it on flying crowded plane to NOLA.
Grasswire2
May 2020
#55
Joseph Fair, virologist and epidemiologist, believes he got it through his eyes while on a flight.
AnotherMother4Peace
May 2020
#65