Originally Posted by
Kleffen
Hi,
I’m currently in Houston and want to get back to Bergen, Norway. I can get there through flying one stop in Amsterdam, and I have enough miles to book a ticket in J, KLM, flying the 787-9 across the pond.
If I do this, and I wear my N95 mask after a clean shave, how safe do you fellow flyers consider this to be? I’ll also do my best to avoid proximity to people in both IAH and AMS.
I know this is a question which calls for speculation, but nevertheless I’m interested in opinions.
Thanks everyone !
I expect to take a similar flight in a few days, and there seem to be 22 PAX. I may even forego going for the upgrade and just take up the exit row.
With HEPA filters and 50% recirculation every 3 minutes or so, I suspect I'm safer than in a supermarket in the US, inside the airport, or perhaps sitting here in an apartment tonight (I've got the air conditioning off, precisely because it might bring in virions from someone nearby).
Without spending a few hours running a statistical analysis for you (I'd be better at calculating your chance of infecting someone else, as that is significantly higher than you catching nCoV-19 on the journey), it may be be safer than staying in the land of "it's a hoax by the commies to judge how compliant you are before they chip all of us."
I'll be wearing N100 gear, of course, though 2/3rds of my equipment is stuff I purchased in January ... I'd keep that N95 tight until the air recirc goes from APU to engines.
Good luck and best wishes.
(Speaking of which: how much is J worth it, on a 10-hour with only 22 PAX on a 789?)