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Passengers should sanitize their hands before getting on to plane.

Sanitizer stations should be easily accessible before boarding the plane.

Every passenger should be provided hand sanitizer by the airline for constant use while on the airplane.

Sanitizers

Exposure rate

Passengers should be tested and provide the documents clearing them from any airborne disease before the flight.

Passengers should be tested by airlines at the airport before boarding the plane.

Passengers and the staff should be tested by the airline before boarding the plane, stopping the spread of airborne diseases before boarding.

Testing kits

Exposure rate

Ionization systems in commercial flights will limit exposure to airborne germs and pathogens.

Ionization systems in commercial flights will reduce passenger exposure to airborne germs and pathogens.

Needlepoint Bi-Polar Ionization Systems in commercial flights will effectively kill airborne germs and pathogens, reducing the risk of contaminating passengers by 75%.

Needlepoint Bi-Polar Ionization Systems

Exposure rate.

Checking temperatures of adult passengers after boarding would help eliminate airborne illness contamination.

Checking temperatures of adult and child passengers after boarding would help eliminate airborne illness contamination.

Checking temperatures of adult and child passengers at check-in, prior to boarding, would help eliminate airborne illness contamination.

Temperature checks.

Exposure rate.

Frequent scheduled maintenance to the HVAC airline systems can help ensure no other contaminants will create a false alert to the air sensor.

Weekly maintenance to the HVAC airline systems can help ensure no other contaminants will create a false alert to the air sensor.

Daily maintenance and changing of air filters to the HVAC airline systems can help ensure no other contaminants will create a false alert to the air sensor.

HVAC systems.

Exposure rate.

Adult passengers, 16 and over, are required to wear a face mask of their choice during the boarding process, but not while they are sleeping, eating, or drinking during the flight.

All passengers are required to wear a face mask of their choice during the boarding process and throughout the flight, except when they are eating.

All passengers are required to wear a new, high quality face mask provided by the airline just prior to boarding the flight. The mask must remain on except when eating.

Face masks.

Exposure rate.

Cabins including a max of ten rows each would reduce exposure and reduce occupancy limits by 15%.

Cabins including a max of five rows each would reduce exposure more and reduce occupancy limits by 30%.

Cabins of varying sizes designed to hold families or groups traveling together, not sharing a cabin with anyone outside of their party, would reduce occupancy limits by 50% or more.

Individual closed off cabins, with individual HEPA air filters, which captures most, but not all pathogens (EPA, 2019).

Exposure rate.

Installing sensors on planes serving undeveloped countries will protect some people.

Installing sensors on all planes making international stops would protect more people.

Installing airborne pathogen sensors on all commercial planes will protect travelers and flight staff from airborne pathogens reducing exposure by 80%.

Airborne Pathogen Sensors

Exposure rate.