Time to re-engineer airliner ventilation?
The one thing airlines don't sell with your air ticket is decent air.
I suppose the best air quality is on Dreamliners because the cabin altitude is at least set at 6,000 feet pressure rather than 8,000 - but the same old air still goes around and around - within the same plane.
What passengers must surely now want is the kind of ventilation cycle you get in your car, where the air is changed every 2 minutes - and the stale old air is vented out the back .
That hated target of the Pprune community The Daily Mail reports today that "The new study sent squads of researchers onto commercial flights to look for viruses and observe how and when people came into close contact.They concluded that people on the aisles get up the most and tend to be most likely to be near a person spewing infectious droplets of flu or cold virus."
The advice is sit near a window seat - but even if a passenger with flu is two seata away from you, you're still in line to be infected.
The study was funded by Boeing and s published yesterday (Monday) by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
...And as for how clear the air-con filters are on airliners - that's anyone's guess .