zhenghe
Leading Aircraftman
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Post by zhenghe on Jul 5, 2020 10:18:09 GMT 12
For a country blessed with a prized marketing position as a covid free tourism destination Air New Zealand's marketing division seem best described as brain dead.
more and more companies are marketing UV lighting which prevents transmission of COVID-19 inside an airliner's cabin. one of the best systems is maketed by Airbus industries yet Air NZ a prolific operator of Airbus aircraft shows no interest in the welfare of their passengers or indeed even their cabin crew notwithstanding a statutory obligation to protect the occupational health of employees.
As NZ struggles to find a coherent way to re-open borders, perhaps it is a blessing that David Clark is no longer part of the process?
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Post by madmac on Jul 5, 2020 11:04:07 GMT 12
I think the critical points would be the follow:
Principle risk of virus transmission is air born during flight, as transmission from a surface is noted as being a low risk.
The level of UV require to prevent air born transmission of virus would hazardous to human health, cabin materials, plus max out the cabin power requirements.
If one uses UV to sanitize the surfaces, it is only those surfaces in direct line of sight that it will sanitize. The UV will greatly shorten the life of any cabin markings / decals (interior ones are not UV rated & fade rapidly when exposed to direct sunlight above 10,000 ft), some one is probably going want to check that the repeat exposures doesn't greatly impact the fire rating of the cabin materials or cause a significant reduction in the life of the cabin plastics.
Also the linked article doesn't once mention Virus, these are harder to kill than bacteria.
At a high level view, tourism is a high risk, low return activity with a poor long term outlook independent of the virus (a global recession was expect this year from about the middle of last year, carbon emissions, etc).
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