Boston Globe, Dan Tuohy
"Diana Fairechild, a clean-air advocate, author, and former Pan Am flight attendant, said she is frustrated by what she considers a lack of progress even as bird flu, SARS, and other communicable diseases have stoked concerns and fear worldwide. 'The airplane environment is perhaps the most crowded space a person can be in,' she said. 'It's a very contagious environment.'" [May'06]
Stephanie Chen, CNN.com "Diana Fairechild, an aviation consultant and flight attendant for two decades, said on the skills she used to deal with rowdy passengers. 'Patience. Just being heard makes a big difference.'" [Sep'09]
Anonymous, Airline Pilot "The pilot manuals assure pilots that we do not breathe the same, recycled air that is piped into the cabin.” [Apr'04]
Diana Fairechild, international flight attendant/purser
Andrew
Weil, M.D.,
Ask Dr. Weil "Diana Fairechild discusses all the health hazards endemic to modern airline
travel." [Nov'96]
Jonathan
Kirsch, Author, Attorney, Columnist
"Diana Fairechild is an authentic visionary and a gifted writer,
and her latest book is a wonderful example of the healing spirit she brings
to all her work."
Mar'98]
Maui News, Jeff Stark "Diana Fairechild not only alerts us to the causes and dangers of air travel, she offers ways to prevent or decrease their impact. She informs us of the nature and origin of a problem, teaches us how to guard against and overcome that problem, and sensitizes us to the widespread and insidious nature of environmental threats we may not have considered." [Jun'93]
George Hoffer, Passenger
"Diana Fairechild's great sense of humor reduces anxiety. You become stronger and able to protect yourself from the rigors of air travel." [Feb'02]
L'Espresso Magazine, Italy, Paolo Pontoniere
"Executive globetrotters amass huge fortunes. Diana Fairechild offers consulting to these business travelers with strategies to reduce their health risks." [Sep'04]
Uri Geller, Paranormal.com
"Diana Fairechild is a natural born healer. She was put on Earth
to help millions of people." [May'01]
Warning; Airline Cabins May Be Dangerous to Your Health!
BY DIANA FAIRECHILD AKA "FLYANA"
"I’m not the Surgeon General, but I can assure you that airline cabins, like cigarette smoking, can be dangerous to your health. There are many environmental dangers in airline cabins, some obvious, many hidden. It's my job to alert you to these dangers AND, most importantly, to offer you my holistic tips to prevent or decrease their impact on your well being."
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AIRLINE CABIN ENVIRONMENTALIST
Diana Fairechild can help you to be an informed and empowered airline passenger. Her tips on healthy, safe flying are experience-based from flying ten million miles as an international flight attendant/in-flight purser.
Diana
started testing her holistic strategies on Los
Angeles to London flights where her jet lag was the worst. She worked on hundreds of nonstops between Los Angeles and London,
so she knew how the jet lag on
that trip affected her and if a remedy worked to ameliorate her symptoms.
After she stopped flying, Diana wrote several books to help passengers and also with the hope that the airlines would alter their ways. They have. They've gotten worse. In 1978, when the airlines began recirculating cabin air about 25% of the air was no longer fresh. Now, about 80% of the air is no longer fresh.
Pilots get ten times more oxygen than passengers.
Diana has devoted a large part of her life to researching the airline cabin, because of something that happened to her when she was a young, beautiful, vibrant, new stewardess (before they were called flight attendants).
What happened? After one flight, something had changed and suddenly she was in a hospital close to death with a pulmonary embolism from a blood clot in her leg.
She recovered, went back to flying, and all seemed well for ten years until the airlines started recirculating the cabin air. Diana felt the change in the oxygen level on board immediately due to a sensitivity that had developed her lung from the embolism.
So she found out what was going on and after some years, when she had stopped flying, she broke this "recirculated air" story to the flying public in her first book, Jet Smart, which also brought to light dozens of other environmental health issues. For example, a toxic pesticide is sometimes sprayed on passengers!
With seatbelts fastened,
the mist of this pesticide
rains down on passengers.
Jet Smart has a chapter called "Killer Mists" that includes a list Diana had compiled of countries around the world where airline passengers got sprayed with pesticide. You can now access this list here.
As "Killer Mists" made it's way around the world, Jet Smart became "an underground hit" (USA Today) and pesticiding passengers became a political issue; the U.S. Department of Transportation wrote letters to countries where pesticides were sprayed on passengers and nineteen countries just stopped it, sparing millions of passengers toxic exposures to a chemical that injures the brain and nervous system.
Environ Magazine [May'94]: "Diana Fairechild's book Jet Smart dropped a bomb in Washington, and the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation changed policy."
Also from Environ Magazine: "Diana Fairechild has done more to raise awareness of environmental toxins than anyone we know."
DIANA FAIRECHILD'S CREDENTIALS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
These experiences ricocheted Diana into a lifetime of airline cabin environmentalism and passenger rights' activism that has resulted, so far, in these accomplishments:
• Three books and 100 articles on air travel health and safety
• Over 700 media interviews
• 75 speeches to a variety of audiences
• Expert testimony in aviation lawsuits
• Corporate workshop presentations
The solutions for how to stay functional in the flying environment today are part of what Diana Fairechild offers as a consultant and workshop presenter. Anyone who flies frequently should read her books and utilize her services.
U.S. Secretary of State in the 1950s, John Foster Dulles, blamed his travel fatigue for causing the Suez Crisis.
