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The Airline Seat of the Future Will Clean Itself
- Recaro working on seat coating that could kill almost any bug
- Future seats to create a hotel room in the sky, company says
Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg
The microbes lurking in airplane seats, hotbeds of infectious diseases, could soon be history.
Recaro Aircraft Seating GmbH, whose customers include Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd., says it’s developing a seat infused with a disinfectant that destroys almost every germ on contact within seconds. It’s a response to studies that consistently show almost everything inside an aircraft cabin is festering with bugs.