{"id":339222,"date":"2020-02-27T11:46:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T06:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=339222"},"modified":"2020-02-27T11:46:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T06:16:08","slug":"how-airlines-are-cleaning-planes-amid-the-threat-of-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/how-airlines-are-cleaning-planes-amid-the-threat-of-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"How airlines are cleaning planes amid the threat of coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines are turning to some of the world\u2019s hardest-hitting disinfectants, capable of stopping everything from sexually transmitted diseases to the MRSA superbug, in the fight against the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Qantas Airways Ltd., Korean Air Lines Co. and Singapore Airlines Ltd.\u2019s Scoot unit are among carriers that helped evacuate people from the outbreak\u2019s epicenter, the Chinese city of Wuhan, and from a cruise ship off Japan. They\u2019ve stepped up aircraft-cleaning efforts as a result, trying to ensure that planes used in rescue missions are safe to be put back into commercial use.<\/p>\n<p>The standard vacuum-and-wipe cleanup on board has turned into hospital-grade sterilizations. How was this done? And are there any risks for passengers using the planes when they return to service? Here are some answers:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines are turning to some of the world\u2019s hardest-hitting disinfectants, capable of stopping everything from sexually transmitted diseases to the MRSA superbug, in the fight against the coronavirus. Qantas Airways Ltd., Korean Air Lines Co. and Singapore Airlines Ltd.\u2019s Scoot unit are among carriers that helped evacuate people from the outbreak\u2019s epicenter, the Chinese city of Wuhan, and from a cruise ship off Japan. They\u2019ve stepped up aircraft-cleaning efforts as a result, trying to ensure that planes used in rescue missions are safe to be put back into commercial use. The standard vacuum-and-wipe cleanup on board has turned into hospital-grade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}