Airliner air quality

[delc]

I am currently laid up with a stinking head cold a few days after flying back from Spain in a Ryanair B737, and several of my friends seem to have gone down with colds shortly after returning from holidays by plane. Cause and effect, or just a coincidence? :mmm:

 

[Rooter]

I am currently laid up with a stinking head cold a few days after flying back from Spain in a Ryanair B737, and several of my friends seem to have gone down with colds shortly after returning from holidays by plane. Cause and effect, or just a coincidence? :mmm:

Coincidence. Probably picked up the cold from the airport, the fact you have been in warmer climate for a few days then back to this, eating out, taxi's, bars. Everyone blames the plane, but i will wager a lot of cash, you have not caught a cold from the plane's aircon system. The filters and pumps they use are hospital grade.

 

[delc]

Coincidence. Probably picked up the cold from the airport, the fact you have been in warmer climate for a few days then back to this, eating out, taxi's, bars. Everyone blames the plane, but i will wager a lot of cash, you have not caught a cold from the plane's aircon system. The filters and pumps they use are hospital grade.

Actually I went to Northern Spain in the Pyrenees mountains, and it was colder there than it is here!

 

[Deleted member 15344]

The air coming in is cleaner that you would get walking around as its filtered through but you could catch a cold from someone on the plane

 

[Norrin Radd]

since the smoking was stopped on planes the air conditioning that is now used is absolutely rubbish compared to before the smoking ban .
the air you now breathe on a plane is not fresh air its very far from it.

 

[Rooter]

since the smoking was stopped on planes the air conditioning that is now used is absolutely rubbish compared to before the smoking ban .
the air you now breathe on a plane is not fresh air its very far from it.

And your post is based on what? fact or opinion?

http://www.airbus.com/aircraftfamilies/comfort/air-quality/

http://www.askthepilot.com/questionanswers/cabin-air-quality/

http://aviation.stackexchange.com/q...ilters-are-being-used-to-filter-the-bleed-air

 

[dewsweeper]

And your post is based on what? fact or opinion?

http://www.airbus.com/aircraftfamilies/comfort/air-quality/

http://www.askthepilot.com/questionanswers/cabin-air-quality/

http://aviation.stackexchange.com/q...ilters-are-being-used-to-filter-the-bleed-air

Good reply and very reassuring.

 

[Rooter]

Good reply and very reassuring.

I fly A LOT! way more likely to get a cold on the tube or train into london than a flight.

 

[delc]

The Japanese seem to wear face masks when suffering from a cold. Is this a good way of preventing transmission to others?

 

[Rooter]

The Japanese seem to wear face masks when suffering from a cold. Is this a good way of preventing transmission to others?

yes and on the plus side, while you are wearing it, you can do some sanding or work with some hazardous substances.

Best way of preventing transmission is pretty much common sense, keep your hands clean, use tissues and dispose of them in the loo, cover your mouth when you sneeze and cough (then wash them again)

 

[Hobbit]

The Japanese seem to wear face masks when suffering from a cold. Is this a good way of preventing transmission to others?

No! Unless it's a mega high quality filtered thingy one, they're good for about 20mins. Once they're wet from water vapour you breathe out they're a waste of time.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

since the smoking was stopped on planes the air conditioning that is now used is absolutely rubbish compared to before the smoking ban .
the air you now breathe on a plane is not fresh air its very far from it.

Sorry but that's false - it's very fresh and very much filtered very well

 

[nailed it]

I've caught more bugs/viruses coming off flights than anywhere else.
I could say the same for many of my work mates.

 

[Rooter]

I've caught more bugs/viruses coming off flights than anywhere else.
I could say the same for many of my work mates.

Where did you fly to? how did you get there (ie to and from the airport)? what did you do there? What did you eat there? who did you meet there?

So many places to pick up a bug of some kind in an environment that your body is not used to, yet everyone blames the planes aircon...

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Mere coincidence. Nothing more

 

[Jimaroid]

It's not the aircon that's the problem, it's how close you are to other people for many hours at a time. Nowhere else do you spend so much time up close with strangers and that makes it more likely a virus will spread through normal surface or airborne contact.

 

[Smiffy]

The Japanese seem to wear face masks when suffering from a cold. Is this a good way of preventing transmission to others?

It didn't do Michael Jackson a lot of good....

 

[ScienceBoy]

Conventions are the worst, #conflu

Planes etc never an issue, air always good.

I fear the tube will give me something nasty though, that air is weird.

 

[nailed it]

Where did you fly to? how did you get there (ie to and from the airport)? what did you do there? What did you eat there? who did you meet there?

So many places to pick up a bug of some kind in an environment that your body is not used to, yet everyone blames the planes aircon...

Have you got shares or something.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Surely the risk on a flight to Spain of contracting anything have to be a lot less than a daily commute on packed trains and tubes where the latter's air is rife with people coughing and sneezing (and those allergic to deodorant on a bad day)