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Spraying the cabin on arrival at SYD from YVR
When I started flying AC from YVR to SYD, I was amazed to observe the ritual of Australian bio-security folk spraying the cabin with bug-i-cide before allowing pax to deplane in SYD. No casual spraying either - lockers open, cabin door closed, a thorough spray all round then about 10 mins to 'stew'.
Australia has always taken bio security seriously and such spraying used to be pretty standard on all long haul arrivals, but the YVR flight is the only one I've experienced it on for a long time (ie doesn't happen on arrivals from USA, Asia (direct or Europe stop-over) or the Gulf).
I absolutely have no problem with this spraying, but does anyone know what particular beasties might be the target of the spray?
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Originally Posted by antirealist
Mostly for mosquitos, which are vectors for malaria, dengue, yellow fever etc. There's information about countries requiring disinsection here.
Is that informed re the YVR-SYD route? One might ask why not for flights from USA, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam etc (all of which i've come in unsprayed in past 12 months)?
Might think more likely dengue fever from there than from Vancouver when its about zero or lower degrees on departure.
I know when I give blood after a trip away, the Red Cross isn't worried about Canada visit, but they are about USA (West Nile Virus).
Is that informed re the YVR-SYD route? One might ask why not for flights from USA, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam etc (all of which i've come in unsprayed in past 12 months)?
All those are sprayed too, but with a long lasting residual pesticide that lasts for weeks.
Remember flying Yvr-Hnl Syd in the 90's
As is the norm they came on and started spraying.
Some one started coughing and after there, was a chain reaction it seemed everybody on the Aircraft joined in and started to clear there throats. It made for comic relief after a long flight.
I'm a bit fuzy but I'm fairly certain it happened on a UA flight I was on from LAX.
The Australians take this stuff seriously.
True story: I saw burly armed (well they may not have been armed with fire arms) customs agents swarm a tiny old dimunitive Asian lady after the Beagle dog sat next to her. The pulled some sort of fruit (think it was a green apple but I could be wrong) out of her purse and she was ushered away.
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OK, I got off my backside and looked up the Aust Dept Agriculture and Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) web site and found proceedures (with NZ equivalent authority).
Looks like airlines can enter into agreements with the Aust and NZ authorities to 'disinfect' planes by various means, at various stages.
I didn't read it word for word but it appears to explain why some carriers use a pax observable spray, whilst others don't. But it seems most if not all the aircraft are treated one way or another.
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Originally Posted by RooFlyer
When I started flying AC from YVR to SYD, I was amazed to observe the ritual of Australian bio-security folk spraying the cabin with bug-i-cide before allowing pax to deplane in SYD. No casual spraying either - lockers open, cabin door closed, a thorough spray all round then about 10 mins to 'stew'.
Australia has always taken bio security seriously and such spraying used to be pretty standard on all long haul arrivals, but the YVR flight is the only one I've experienced it on for a long time (ie doesn't happen on arrivals from USA, Asia (direct or Europe stop-over) or the Gulf).
I absolutely have no problem with this spraying, but does anyone know what particular beasties might be the target of the spray?
