Flying: Is it SAFE?

Yes. As always, if your doctor tells you otherwise, 100% listen. But, generally speaking, flying is safe up until the day you give birth. Some airlines may have a restriction based on how many weeks along you are and depending on flight duration or destination, and that is only because they prefer you are not giving birth on the airplane or in a different country.
Women also hide their pregnancy when in the airport to avoid questions or the risk of not being allowed on the flight - there is no form you fill out confirming or denying you are pregnant when buying a ticket.

Another concern surrounding flying, and travel in general, is Covid-19. Research was completed by the Department of Defense and Harvard, both concluding it is “extremely difficult” to contract Covid on an airplane.
Key takeaways include:
- ventilation systems on planes refresh the air every two to three minutes, and new measures including heavy-duty disinfecting, strict face mask enforcement and social distancing during boarding and deplaning
- the small virus droplets known as aerosols, expelled from a sick passenger, have no more than a 3-in-1,000 chance of reaching the breathing zone of a passenger in the neighboring economy seat; passengers in nearby aisles, an average of only one in a thousand aerosols will reach their breathing zone
- hospital-grade air filters push airborne particles downward, filtering out >99% of the particles that cause COVID-19, and recirculate air quickly, removing airborne contaminants nearly three times as quickly as standard hospital operating rooms
- one foot of separation in an airplane is comparable from a Covid-19 transmission risk standpoint to a conference room with people spaced at least seven feet apart
- a person would have to be sitting next to an infectious passenger for at least 54 hours to receive a dangerous dose of the virus through the air

In conclusion, my husband and I will be travelling from New York to Toronto for the holidays. And hopefully travel somewhere warm for New Years.

cbxo