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Your travel guide

Travelling during the pandemic is a risky business and carries a certain degree of risk. However, air travel has picked up once again and with people starting to move around amidst the new normal, people still tend to wonder which will be the safest seat in a flight.

While choosing a seat before the pandemic was all about scoring the most legroom, and amenities, COVID-19 scare has changed everything we know about travelling up in the air. Which place in the plane carries the highest risk for transmission? What do you do to maintain the recommended six-feet distance and most importantly, what's the best way to stay safe on a flight?

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Safest seat on a flight

While most planes in operation right now are blocking the middle seat in lieu of social distancing, one of the ways to minimize your risk of COVID exposure is by sitting on the window seat. According to experts, the reason why a window seat is a safe place to sit at is because of the apparent exposure an aisle seat owing to passenger movement.

Think about it this way, the more passengers walk across the flight, the more likely they are to touch surfaces and the risk exists the most for those sitting on the aisle seat. With the middle seat curtailed for use, a person sitting on the window seat is less likely to be in touch with germs and contagious surfaces.

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Crowded airports

The risk for COVID infection also increases for a person at an airport, or other travel corridors, where there may not be adequate cleanliness, distancing followed, ventilation or a crowded airport with a lot of frequent touch surfaces.

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Face coverings

Travelling outside does bring forward exposure risk. However, a number of studies have said that using a flight during the pandemic is a less risky activity than visiting a grocery store or being in a crowded place.

This is primarily because flights undergo strong safety checks and sanitation measures between trips, which can ensure that the plane is deep cleaned and stripped off possible germs before a passenger travels. Using masks, face coverings and PPE kits for the duration of the flight also cuts down the risk of infection by a big percentage.

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CDC advice

Centre of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in its recent advisory also said that even though travelling is a risky activity, the risk of viral transmission onboard a flight is on the lower side, because of the way air circulates and filters in an airplane.

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