[webber]

It sounds like you have an agenda here. Let's see. If passengers become scared because of SARS, and believe that SARS can be spread more easily in a confined cabin where the air is recirculated, then they will become more reluctant to travel by air. If they don't fly as much by air, then less planes will need to fly. If less planes need to fly, then less "Pilots" are needed to fly them. You aren't worried about your employment are you?

[safisoft]

If less planes need to fly, then less "Pilots" are needed to fly them. You aren't worried about your employment are you?

Actually, I do have an agenda - but not what you think. My agenda is to "out" idiots that know nothing about aviation making it sound like they do. The article has so many factual faults with it, it is silly.

Example: the author states that "727's used fresh air" - as if the systems are different on a 727 from a modern 737. They are essentially the SAME. NO, (I repeat NO) jet airliners pumped "fresh air" into the cabin as the author implies - they simply LEAKED more. There are "high flow" settings in modern airliners that match or exceed whatever a 727 did. The point is that any air that is shared is a problem. So, there MAY be SARS a problem flying on airplanes - just not the silly one the author makes). The author makes it sound like the airlines could FIX this and they choose not to. Those big bad airlines who want everyone to get SARS...