Virgin Airways spraying customers with pesticides
Aug 18th 2009, 4:20 am
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Virgin Airways spraying customers with pesticides
Does anyone know what the regulations are? I've flown into Oz 3 times in the last year (BA, Qantas and Virgin) and Virgin have been the only airline who have (openly) FUMIGATED THE CABINS WITH PESTICIDES.
I could have cried when the stewardess appeared with her spray can and began spraying the ceiling firstly and then secondly the carpet. I had thought this was a thing of the past because BA (yeuch) and Qantus hadn't done it on my earlier flights.
Why is this allowed to go on?? They are poisoning us and obviously also damaging their own health.
PS Apart from this incident I thought Virgin were great.
I could have cried when the stewardess appeared with her spray can and began spraying the ceiling firstly and then secondly the carpet. I had thought this was a thing of the past because BA (yeuch) and Qantus hadn't done it on my earlier flights.
Why is this allowed to go on?? They are poisoning us and obviously also damaging their own health.
PS Apart from this incident I thought Virgin were great.
Aug 18th 2009, 4:32 am
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I flew with BA from Bangkok to Sydney on Saturday and the cabin was sprayed twice - after the doors closed in BKK and before landing in SYD. The cabin announcement says that it's due to Australian regulations although like you I'm sure it hasn't always happened when I've flown in - can't say for sure though.
http://www.daff.gov.au/aqis/quaranti...ses/mosquitoes
Australia is also one of about 40 countries that require the spraying (disinsection) of international aircraft cabins and holds to kill insects that transmit human diseases.
AQIS provides a range of options for aircraft disinsection:
residual disinsection —empty aircraft are sprayed to provide residual protection for eight weeks;
pre-embarkation disinsection — cabin crew spray the aircraft before passengers board at the last port before departure for Australia. The treatment lasts through the flight;
top-of descent treatment — cabin crew spray before passengers embark and again just before landing; and
on-arrival treatment — cabin crew spray aircraft before disembarkation.
http://www.daff.gov.au/aqis/quaranti...ses/mosquitoes
Australia is also one of about 40 countries that require the spraying (disinsection) of international aircraft cabins and holds to kill insects that transmit human diseases.
AQIS provides a range of options for aircraft disinsection:
residual disinsection —empty aircraft are sprayed to provide residual protection for eight weeks;
pre-embarkation disinsection — cabin crew spray the aircraft before passengers board at the last port before departure for Australia. The treatment lasts through the flight;
top-of descent treatment — cabin crew spray before passengers embark and again just before landing; and
on-arrival treatment — cabin crew spray aircraft before disembarkation.
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Aug 18th 2009, 4:41 am
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Aug 18th 2009, 4:48 am
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oh bcworld...you've been breathing in those chemtrails again, haven't you?
Aug 18th 2009, 4:50 am
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Re: Virgin Airways spraying customers with pesticides
Does anyone know what the regulations are? I've flown into Oz 3 times in the last year (BA, Qantas and Virgin) and Virgin have been the only airline who have (openly) FUMIGATED THE CABINS WITH PESTICIDES.
I could have cried when the stewardess appeared with her spray can and began spraying the ceiling firstly and then secondly the carpet. I had thought this was a thing of the past because BA (yeuch) and Qantus hadn't done it on my earlier flights.
Why is this allowed to go on?? They are poisoning us and obviously also damaging their own health.
PS Apart from this incident I thought Virgin were great.
I could have cried when the stewardess appeared with her spray can and began spraying the ceiling firstly and then secondly the carpet. I had thought this was a thing of the past because BA (yeuch) and Qantus hadn't done it on my earlier flights.
Why is this allowed to go on?? They are poisoning us and obviously also damaging their own health.
PS Apart from this incident I thought Virgin were great.
Its annoying, it gives me a headache and I'm surprised that anyone actually manages in economy on Virgin to make it alive from LHR to Aus given the ridiculous stingy seat dimensions, the rubbish food and surly service which is vaguely reminiscent of a Tomas Cook charter airline, so I'm stunned that an insect could live anyhow!
Aug 18th 2009, 5:03 am
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Aug 18th 2009, 5:07 am
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What is 'safe', please tell me? It is a scientific fact that pesticides may contribute, amongst other illnesses, to Parkinson's Disease. I discovered this when a friend of mine, aged 41, developed it.
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Aug 18th 2009, 5:12 am
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If you earch the net there are cases of cabin crew claiming compensation after prolonged exposure to these sprays, but I'm not sure if any were successful.
Aug 18th 2009, 5:13 am
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Are you sure they're not spraying you all with deodorant, you can start to smell a tad after 24hrs on a plane... 
Aug 18th 2009, 5:15 am
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Do you know what was being sprayed on the plane? I suspect not, yet you can unequivocally state you were being 'poisoned' and your health was being damaged?
Aug 18th 2009, 5:20 am
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In April stewardesses sprayed the cabin on an Air Asia X flight into Perth that I was on.
Aug 18th 2009, 5:24 am
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No I don't know. The crew don't appear to know either - and that is the most worrying thing. Sheeple doing as they are told, I suppose.
Aug 18th 2009, 5:34 am
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for instance, the latest fad appears to be : natural, unprocessed, no chemical names on the labels = good.....vs processed, chemical names on labels = bad.
I agree with bcworld on this one.
Aug 18th 2009, 5:37 am
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