Cabins Must Be Social Distanced
For over a year we’ve been told to socially distance.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urged us to keep at least six feet away from others while indoors and outdoors.How to Socially Distance on a Plane? Airlines like to claim the cabin air is clean, despite no social distancing and sardine seating, because of HEPA filtration systems. But not all aircraft have HEPA filters.
The fact is, middle-seat-blocking substantially increases passenger safety from COVID, studies show. Dr. Anthony Fauci and former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield both criticized airlines for placing passengers in middle seats.
FlyersRights is proposing a sweeping new plan that caps passenger load factors at 50% or 65%, with the federal government purchasing 15% to 30% of tickets to keep those seats empty. This plan guarantees that airlines operate at a profitable 80% load factor while increasing the health and safety of flights by keeping middle seats or half of all seats empty. In exchange, the federal government would receive a percentage of this investment back in the form of future tickets or travel credit for government employees when airlines return to their typical profitability.
