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Old Mar 8, 2020, 7:01 pm
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Originally Posted by rsteinmetz70112
I hear a virologist on NPR say it may survive as long as 3 days on an open surface, which is pretty long for a virus. UV light apparently kills it.
Maybe someone could create a drone designed for flying inside a plane, that staff could launch, and it would blast the whole cabin with strong UV light in just a few minutes? That might be much less time consuming that manual sanitizing.

And that's the problem with Southwest's fast-turn strategy, it doesn't allow for when extra steps are needed between plane uses.

Are we going to hear in the news that Southwest is going to cut back N% of flights because they have to add 10 minutes extra between each flight for sanitizing?
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