August 25th - Cabin air quality: what’s the problem – and the solution?
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Today I am talking to a campaigner on cabin air quality, Captain Tristan Loraine. He believes passengers and crew are often at risk because of engine oil contaminating the air inside commercial aircraft. He is the spokesperson for the Global Cabin Air Quality Executive, gcaqe.org
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| 0:51.4 | Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast, which today is on the subject of cabin air. |
| 0:58.0 | You may well be aware that there has been a lot of controversy about weather the way that cabin air is fed to passengers on an aircraft, |
| 1:09.0 | and in particular the fact that it derives from the engine and there are |
| 1:14.2 | concerns about the oils there well that has been raising serious concerns about the impact on health |
| 1:21.8 | a campaigner who i have known for some years is tristan lor. He's just produced a film on the subject. He has |
| 1:31.1 | also very sadly lost his dear wife after a long battle against lobular breast cancer. But he has |
| 1:40.1 | very kindly agreed to speak to me. What is happening with the cabin air issue? Where are we now? |
| 1:47.4 | The air people breathe on every commercial airliner flying comes off the engines, and it's known as bleed air, |
| 1:53.8 | and that air isn't filtered, with a sole exception, of course, of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, |
| 1:59.7 | which has revolutionized the air quality on airplanes. |
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