Cabin air quality

photome

trolleyrun wrote: »

Ehm, sorry, but the "air con" would've been working on the flight, otherwise you wouldn't have been able to breathe. Did you mean the cabin was too hot? Too cold?

Ehm, sorry, if I made a mistke.

There was no air blowing (in fact no nozzles anyway) and it was very very hot so no air cooling as opposed to no A/C, or to me the same thing as if the A/C was working properly it would have been cooling/heating the air, however it was still the worst air quality i have ever had.

It was a BA 747

trolleyrun

photome wrote: »

Ehm, sorry, if I made a mistke.

There was no air blowing (in fact no nozzles anyway) and it was very very hot so no air cooling as opposed to no A/C, or to me the same thing as if the A/C was working properly it would have been cooling/heating the air, however it was still the worst air quality i have ever had.

It was a BA 747

Did you say anything to the crew? Temperatures can be changed very easily on these aircraft. Also, large aircraft such as the 747 do not have individual air vents as the ceiling is much higher than on a 737 as an example, so most people wouldn't be able to reach them. It does amaze me when people sit onboard an aircraft for hours being uncomfortable (whether too hot or too cold) and they don't say anything to the crew so they can sort it out. If you did, and the situation didnt change, I apologise.

MiraculousM

One ryanair fight I went on, a child has seizures and then the next I went on, a diabetic woman fainted. Whether or not this was ryanairs air quality fault, I have no idea

Bob_the_Saver

MiraculousM wrote: »

One ryanair fight I went on, a child has seizures and then the next I went on, a diabetic woman fainted. Whether or not this was ryanairs air quality fault, I have no idea

On all my hundreds of Ryanair flights I have not noticed anyone fainting or having a seizure even when they realised how cheaply they were getting where they wanted to go.

photome

trolleyrun wrote: »

Did you say anything to the crew? Temperatures can be changed very easily on these aircraft. Also, large aircraft such as the 747 do not have individual air vents as the ceiling is much higher than on a 737 as an example, so most people wouldn't be able to reach them. It does amaze me when people sit onboard an aircraft for hours being uncomfortable (whether too hot or too cold) and they don't say anything to the crew so they can sort it out. If you did, and the situation didnt change, I apologise.

How do you know people sit there being uncomfortable, is it because you are air crew and they dont tell you, in which case how would you know, If you do know why not do something about it without them asking

If i am wrong i apologise

Back to my point

Of course I said something to the crew along with most other passangers..."It is broken sir" was the response.

I also emailed BA on my return who apologised and then said hope you fly with us again..

The reason I responded on this thread was about air quality differences between budget and so called premium airlines, highlighting the fact it doesnt make any difference

As the OP hasnt been back there is little point though

luci

It's not just in the cabin where there are problems with air quality

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/british-airways-pilots-killed-by-toxic-1559777

budgetflyer

Bob_the_Saver wrote: »

Multi-purpose floral ornament one use of which was to shield the bearer from not so nice smells.
http://www.ehow.co.uk/info_7820697_nosegay-bouquet.html

I can see an extra box being added into the Ryanair booking process.
"Do you want a "nosegay at £5.99 ?"

MO'L has his dastardly ex Saddam chemists working on artificial fart + BO essence to add to the aircon as we speak.:D

Mr_Wang

The only issue ive ever seen when flying (hundreds of flights) is that on a flight say 3+ hours the skin on my face dries out. I have to put on moisturizer otherwise it peels.

I honestly cant say it is better or worse on a budget airline as opposed to say Virgin.

callum9999

MiraculousM wrote: »

One ryanair fight I went on, a child has seizures and then the next I went on, a diabetic woman fainted. Whether or not this was ryanairs air quality fault, I have no idea

I saw someone have a seizure in the street before. I therefore think the air quality in Britain is seizure inducing....

trolleyrun

photome wrote: »

How do you know people sit there being uncomfortable, is it because you are air crew and they dont tell you, in which case how would you know, If you do know why not do something about it without them asking

If i am wrong i apologise

Yes I am crew and the reason I know is that some passengers tell us getting off the aircraft. I can't do anything about it, as all people are different. On every flight I do, we get some people who are too warm, some are too cold, some are quite happy. If passengers tell me they're uncomfortable, I'll try to do something about it, but as an example, I can't turn the heat up if just one person is cold, as the 200+ other passengers would then be too hot. It's always a tricky situation and unfortunately my colleagues and I are not mind readers, that's why we need the passengers to tell us.