{"id":78373,"date":"2025-02-09T18:54:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T18:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/airline\/air-travel-in-the-time-of-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2025-02-09T18:54:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T18:54:36","slug":"air-travel-in-the-time-of-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=78373","title":{"rendered":"Air Travel in the Time of Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"


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People today love to embrace an awful horror story, especially one that makes for good click bait. \u201cAir travel\u201d and \u201cpandemic\u201d in the same sentence will draw social media responses well beyond the mundane details of daily life\u2013but therein lies the fallacy.<\/p>\n

While the CDC assures travelers that \u201cMost viruses and other germs do not spread easily on flights because of how air circulates and is filtered on airplanes,\u201d the larger warning, following this assurance, is that air travelers must \u201cconsider how you get to and from the airport, as public transportation and ridesharing can increase your chances of being exposed to the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In other words, it\u2019s not the spectacular, scary \u201comigod I could get COVID on an airliner\u201d premise but rather the mundane daily life exposure that\u2019s the real threat. Between boarding and deplaning, from home to destination then back to home, you\u2019re going to clock much more exposure to viruses than you will on the actual flight<\/em>.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s exactly as it always has been in the airline biz\u2013spectacular but .0011% accident rates are the clickbait headlines fueling air travel worries, even though over 200,000 annual U.S. traffic deaths don\u2019t dissuade anyone from driving the Airport Freeway to get on a flight. <\/p>\n

Airlines are taking this outbreak seriously\u2013and notice that social media hysteria aside, the CDC has now reclassified Covid-19 as an \u201coutbreak\u201d\u2013which is startling to me having been an airline pilot for decades. Typically, airlines are reluctant to enforce behavior standards among passengers for fear of damaging brands, invoking boycotts, or grabbing ugly headlines from out-of-context social media videos and photos. Not so in the case of Covid: passengers have been banned for life<\/em> from several airlines for refusing to comply with CDC-recommended precautions.<\/p>\n

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The reality is, air travel, with aggressively sanitized planes, explicit exposure-minimizing crew procedures, and inflight uber-filtered air makes the actual flight the least contagious part of your trip.<\/p>\n

So ignore\u2013and resist creating\u2013groundless social media click bait. Take normal precautions, bring hand sanitizer, water (stay hydrated!), mask up, and get aboard. If there\u2019s anything to actually worry about, it\u2019s your drive to and from the airport on deadly highways.<\/p>\n

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Air travel, as with freeway traffic, simply requires personal responsibility, normal precautions, then a determination to get on with your life.<\/p>\n

Please do.<\/p>\n

Looking for the real-life, in-cockpit view of air travel and airlines? Here it is. Awarded \u201cBest Non-Fiction of 2020,\u201d paperback or Kindle, from Amazon Books. CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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