Sounds like the Dreamliner is the only plane designed to avoid this problem. Oddly the article hardly mentions Airbus, so it isn't clear to what degree their planes suffer this problem. And I wonder why European regulators aren't addressing this issue (which seems implied by the article).
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#12I have no idea what that site is meant to be but it doesn't work on FF/Linux. There is only a headline and a no-sound not-telling-me-anything video... EDIT: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-17/how-we-i... Seems to be a link to the actual article? Or a different article related to it?
Worked fine for me with that combo.
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#13Can we please change the click bait headline to reflect what actually happened
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#14The whole airport-and-airplanes experience always leaves me feeling like crap. Like I have the flu. My friends report similarly. I figured it's common knowledge.
Plastic vapors. Bad food. Weird solvents. Toxic af.
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#15If I recall correctly the 787 bypasses the use of bleed air and similar systems by using electrical power instead to pressurize the cabin. That comes with its own set of interesting issues but I wonder if you could get some useful data from the fact that these events shouldn't occur on that plane.
It feels much better whilst in the air, but at least some airlines don't run the air conditioning whilst on the ground, so it can feel horrible in the event of warm weather & a delay on the tarmac.
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#16The whole airport-and-airplanes experience always leaves me feeling like crap. Like I have the flu. My friends report similarly. I figured it's common knowledge. Plastic vapors. Bad food. Weird solvents. Toxic af.
Airport food varies pretty wildly. SFO and PVG are terrible. LAX is bad. HKG is good. SEA is great.
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#17This better explains not really remembering events of movies I watched in flight than the prevailing air-pressure explanation.
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#18Can we please change the click bait headline to reflect what actually happened
Such as? It looks like what I just read, how about you
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#19Does anyone else have a hard time putting up with flying (pre-pandemic) recently? 20 years ago I used to fly without any issue but since they've made the seats smaller, the food somehow got worse and the TSA pre-boarding eats another hour of time I wouldn't have spent in the airport.
I recently started trying to fly business class to actually arrive at my destination like a functioning human being and not anxious/sick to my stomach. Unfortunately it's prohibitively expensive.
Add in the toxic fumes and I'm not surprised how bad I feel after a transcontinental flight.
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#20I've heard people say they feel different when they fly on 787s. I wonder if this is why.
On another note, I'm more concerned with the toxic gases coming out of people sitting next to me.