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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Lessons from a Flight Attendant's Suffering,
By Donald Mitchell "Jesus Loves You!" (Thanks for Providing My Reviews over 110,000 Helpful Votes Globally) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (TOP 100 REVIEWER)
This review is from: Jet Smarter: The Air Traveler's Rx (Paperback)
This review has been rewritten with the benefit of extensive comments from the author.Before reading this review, please be aware that Ms. Fairechild kindly let me know that she is bringing out a new book in October 2003 that is 150 pages in length that she feels eliminates the problems with this current book that my review addresses. Although I have not seen that book, I suggest that you consider that one instead of this one. This book will be of most value to those who are starting careers as flight attendants or are frequent fliers who experience illness during and after traveling. Occasional fliers will find relatively little relevant information for them beyond what I have read in magazines and newspapers. The lesson of this book is that doing lots of flying is hazardous to your health and sense of well-being. On pages 200-201 of the paperback, regular print edition, you can find a chart of symptoms which refers to what may be causing those symptoms. From there, you can check into the relevant section of the book. This is the best way to use this book. Caution: Do not, I repeat, DO NOT, read this book from front to back. It contains the same information, on the same subjects over and over again. I estimate that there are less than 100 pages of unrepeated material in the 396 pages in this book. I found it very hard to plow through all that repetition. Ms. Fairechild was a flight attendant for many years and finally had to give up that profession due to illness caused by chemical sensitivities. During that time, she flew over 10 million miles. Her own health issues turned her into a person focused on sharing the potential dangers of flying with passengers and crew members. She is kind to share the lessons of her own problems with the rest of us. Her explanations are pretty easy to follow. The most serious problems usually relate to lack of oxygen, dehydration, becoming infected with diseases from other passengers, chemical poisoning, and stress reactions. She provides extensive lists of counter-measures -- more than most people will probably choose to follow. But if you have an extreme problem, you may choose to pursue all of them. You will probably be shocked to learn that pilots are often paid bonuses for using less fuel that encourage not providing as much oxygen to passengers as the planes are capable of providing. She suggests asking the flight attendants to request that the pilot make full oxygen available. I haven't flown since I read this so I don't know how well it will work to make that request. Ms. Fairechild also points out that almost 90% of all fliers will have some negative health outcome during or after the trip. Would you tolerate that if your car had the same effect on you? Perhaps our legislators in Congress should require some changes. Naturally, the best thing to do is to stay off airplanes. I was troubled by sections of the book where Ms. Fairechild writes quantitatively. Her numbers sometimes didn't make any sense to me. She asserts that a Boeing 777 costs one billion dollars (more than the stock market value of most airlines), which cannot be right. She now tells me that she has checked with Boeing after reading my review, and agrees that the number is wrong. She frequently points out high profitability in the industry, while the industry has cumulatively lost money since its inception through any ending year you want to use. These statements made me less confident about her quantitative statements about health. Are there really 15 million people in the United States who have tuberculosis, as she asserts? I don't think so. It may be that a large number of people occasionally test positively for tuberculosis. The commonly used test is notoriously inaccurate in producing false positives among people who do not have the disease. Ms. Fairechild tells me that she had no one to help her check facts or edit the book, which may account for these lapses. I would have rated the book lower because of its writing style and the errors which made me question the book's facts, but I think its overall message is one that all flight crews and frequent fliers need to understand. Let the inflight workers and frequent fliers beware! I certainly admire and appreciate Ms. Fairechild's sincere attempts to help us all have healthier flights. She seems to be a five-star person! I hope her new book is a great success. After you read this book, think about what else you do that is potentially harmful to your health. How can you accommodate your career and personal needs in a more healthful way?
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This book can save your health, maybe even your life!,
By arlene (Greenville, North Carolina) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Jet Smarter: The Air Traveler's Rx (Paperback)
Jet Smarter is the Encyclopedia Britannica of air travel! Read it before you board an airplane - then pack it in your carry-on. This book can save your health, maybe even your life! There are more dangers in flying than you ever dreamed of. It's all in Jet Smarter. The book is hard-hitting, in depth, comprehensive, full of solutions, entertaining and often witty. It's a behind-the-scenes look from author Diana Fairechild, a savvy former flight attendant and now aviation health expert. Diana's advice on how to deal with flying is practical and useful. Her suggestions really work. It's obvious that she's been there, done that, and fixed that herself. Thanks to Jet Smarter, I can fly without being sick during and after the flight. I can think and work - or play - after a flying instead of going straight to bed to recuperate. Now, instead of dreading the trip, I actually look forward to it.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The definitive guide to air travel health and safety!!!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Jet Smarter: The Air Traveler's Rx (Paperback)
No airline passenger should be without JET SMARTER, Diana Fairechild's definitive guide to air travel health. Drawing on her 21 years experience as an airline insider, Diana gives us a rare, no-holds-barred look at the dangers of jet travel and, luckily for us, offers hundreds of sensible ways to cope with or even avoid their impact on our health. Wonderfully readable, Diana's new book startles us with how hazardous airline practices are, comforts us with her healthy, personally-tested approach to surviving the travel experience, and entertains us frequently with her sometimes gentle, sometimes gritty, but always grand sense of humor.
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