By A.W. | WASHINGTON, DC
The northern hemisphere is suffering from a historic heatwave that has caused droughts and wildfires. It is affecting business travellers too, in the form of flight cancellations. Worse, extreme temperatures pose a lethal danger to passengers. A major campaign by flight attendants across America seeks to address that.
The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, an American trade union representing 50,000 flight attendants at 20 airlines, held a news conference last week at Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC, to announce its push to get the Department of Transportation to regulate cabin temperatures. The group had already submitted a petition to the government, seeking upper and lower limits on plane temperatures. Currently, the cabin must be within 5 degrees Fahrenheit (around 2.8 degrees Celsius) of the cockpit, but there are no regulations governing the actual temperature.
