Given how tempting travel is these days because of the manycheap traveloptions, including cheapairplane tickets, discount hotel rooms, and cheap vacation packages, itwould be a shame to get sick while in the air and spoil your planned fun atyour destination.
A common fear of people who fly is that they are going toget sick from being on an airplane. Someclaim later that the reason they got sick was from being on an airplane.
Experts advise getting a window seat and not leaving thatseat until the flight is over. A recentstudy initiated and funded by Boeing found that sitting in a window seat keepspassengers away from infectious people who may be on the aisle or movingaround.
The study revealed the following:
About38 percent of passengers never left their seat, 38 percent left once, 13percent left twice, and 11 percent left more than two times.
Peoplein aisle seats got up the most during flights. Around 80 percent of people sitting on the aisle moved at least onceduring their flights compared with 62 percent in middle seats and 43 percent inwindow seats.
The 11people sitting closest to a passenger with a cold or flu are at the highestrisk of exposure. Those included the twopeople sitting to the persons left, the two to the right, the people in therow immediately in front of them and those in the row behind.
The only problem with the recommendation of selecting awindow seat to minimize your chances of contracting someone elses illness isthat some passengers feel trapped in a window seat if they need to get up touse a bathroom or just to stretch their legs.
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