Source: Clean Up Cabin Air

Ever smelled dirty socks onboard?  Non-profit CLEAN UP CABIN AIR is formally encouraging as many people as possible to GIVE $10 to this important cause, and GET 10 friends to do the same. A dirty socks smell in the cabin is likely to be engine oil fumes in the ventilation air. You read that right: the air that comes through the cabin and flight deck vents is first compressed in the engines, and it isn’t filtered before you breathe it. AFA receives regular reports from members who report dirty socks or musty fumes in the cabin supply air, followed by problems with memory, balance, and speech, for example. Nobody thinks it will happen to them, until it does.

As things stand, flight attendants can’t usually access the aircraft maintenance records to PROVE that oil contaminated the cabin air. And there is no blood test specific to these fumes, so airlines often say that “nothing was wrong” and that crews are just imagining their disabling symptoms. Fortunately, a dedicated research team at the University of Washington is developing a blood test specific to the aviation engine oil. You can help by visiting GIVE TEN, GET TEN.

All flight attendants and pilots need this blood test, so we all need to GIVE TEN, GET TEN . If you are exposed to oil fumes onboard, then you need to be able to prove it, and all of us need the industry to feel more motivated to clean up the cabin air.

A single person’s TEN DOLLARS won’t fund anything, but our GOAL is to bring ENOUGH people onboard that ENOUGH ten dollar donations are received, that the research will be a success, for the good of crews everywhere. So please, GIVE TEN, GET TEN, and encourage your flying partners, family, friends, people you don’t even like, your dog, anyone and everyone, to do the same… 

Don’t leave the page until you have given $10 and sent the link to ten people!  The GIVE TEN, GET TEN! campaign is overseen by non-profit organization Clean Up Cabin Air, led by volunteer flight attendants and their supporters.