A UK Parliamentary committee has issued nearly 50 recommendations to combat possible hazards to aircraft crew and passengers after a nine-month study into air travel and health.
Recommendations by the House of Lords science and technology panel aimed at airlines, the UK Government, and regulatory agencies include: fitting ozone converters to aircraft used on routes where ozone plumes might be encountered; improved in-service performance monitoring of High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filters, and making filtration in re-circulatory systems mandatory to best HEPA standards; providing more health information for crew and travellers and further researching the potentially fatal blood clotting condition, deep-vein thrombosis.
Lord Winston, science and technology committee chairman says: "Flying too cheaply is potentially too risky, and there may have to be a trade-off."
"We'd like to think health becomes almost a marketing tool," says Baroness Wilcox, who chaired the subcommittee looking into the issues.
Source: Flight International