DeFazio calls for better air quality on airliners.(Health)

The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) | February 10, 2004 | Copyright

Byline: Bill Bishop The Register-Guard

Ever wonder if it's the air inside an airplane that gives you that post-flight headache or nasty cold?

Don't ask the Federal Aviation Administration because it isn't paying much attention to air quality, according to a General Accounting Office survey done at the request of Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore.

"It would be hard to find an airline passenger who has never come down with a cold or a sore throat and runny nose after flying," DeFazio said Monday. "Yet the FAA has largely ignored the effects of cabin air ...

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