- Hospital filters keep United's cabin air clean

  • 01/03/1998

  • Financial Times (London)

Passenger concern that poor air quality on flights may be putting them at risk of disease has prompted United Airlines to install filters used by hospitals to sheild transplant patients. It says the filters will keep out all but a tiny percentage of bacteria. Controversy over the issue has been reawakened by suggestions that some airlines may have been reducing the amount of clean air in cabins to save fuel used by recycling units.