cabin pressure and health

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Boeing funded a clinical trial to actually determine the effects of
being at an 8000 foot altitude for extended periods...

The airlines do nothing to warn folks that they will be subjected to high
altitude conditions on a flight. As a result, There is no doubt that there are
people (lung conditions, elderly etc.) riding in airliners without supplemental
oxygen who shouldn't be allowed to do so.

My wife has a lung condition. At sea level she barely maintains a reliable 90%
(the accepted minimum) oxygen saturation, in an airliner I have seen her "sats"
dip into the 70's. The airlines seem to go out of their way to make it
difficult and expensive for passengers to order supplemental oxygen. The normal
charge is $100 per flight segment (typical $400 for a round trip flight), and
each airline has a different convoluted and uncertain bureaucracy for ordering
oxygen.


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Vaughn


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