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#China  #Coronavirus #Outbreak #Quarantine #Wuhan #Airlines #Handwashing Forget face masks and rubber gloves. The best way to avoid the coronavirus is frequent hand washing, according to a medical adviser to the world’s airlines. The virus can’t survive long on seats or armrests, so physical contact with another person carries the greatest risk of infection on a flight, said David Powell, a physician and medical adviser to the  International Air Transport Association . Masks and gloves do a better job of spreading bugs than stopping them, he said. As concern mounts about the scale of the outbreak, carriers from  United Airlines Holdings Inc.  to  Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd.  have  scrapped  thousands of flights to China. Here is an edited transcript from an interview with Powell.  IATA  represents about  290 airlines  and more than 80% of global air traffic. Q: Is there a risk of becoming conta...

A#    Thanksgiving #Travel #Airport #Traffic #Airlines #TSA America will be traveling in big numbers this Thanksgiving. It's estimated to be the busiest Thanksgiving travel period since 2005, with more than 55 million Americans making a trip longer than 50 miles, according to the AAA. That's 1.6 million more than last year, a nearly 2.9 percent increase. Nearly 32 million of those are expected to fly,  according  to Airlines for America (A4A), an industry trade group, a 3.7 percent jump from 2018. American Airlines alone said it expects to operate 74,396 flights and fly more than 7.4 million passengers during the 12 day period between November 22 and December 3. Delta expects to carry 3.2 million passengers between Monday, November 25 and Sunday, December 1. To accommodate the extra traffic, US airlines are adding an average of 859 flights per day, according to A4A, averaging 108,000 seats added per day. During the travel period, the busie...