Coronavirus FAQ: So Do Lots Of People Get COVID-19 From Flying?
A study released this week points to two passengers infected on a four-hour-plus flight. But there hasn't been a lot of documentation of transmission on planes. So how risky is flying?
by Pranav Baskar
Aug 21, 2020
4 minutes
Each week, we answer "frequently asked questions" about life during the coronavirus crisis. If you have a question you'd like us to consider for a future post, email us at goatsandsoda@npr.org with the subject line: "Weekly Coronavirus Questions."
Air travel has seldom looked the way it does right now.
International aviation is operating just 2% to 4% of its normal number of flights.
And plane tickets are selling for dirt-cheap — like a famed $6 ride from Newark, N.J., to Fort Myers, Fla., earlier this year.
The economics of aviation has certainly changed.
So has the nature of air travel. A new spate of rules and techniques —
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