Covid-19 Risk on Qantas Flight Highest in Window Seats in Economy Class
- Window seats half way down economy cabin most at risk: study
- Contradicts view that window seats have lower infection chance
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The spread of Covid-19 on a Qantas Airways Ltd. flight in March showed people in window seats in the middle of the economy cabin had the greatest risk of contracting the virus, according to genome sequencing analysis of infected passengers.
At least eight, and probably as many as 11, passengers caught Covid-19 during the five-hour flight from Sydney to Perth on March 19, scientists from Western Australia wrote in the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal. Eleven people were infectious on the plane: almost all of them had disembarked the cruise-ship Ruby Princess in Sydney earlier that day.