December 15, 2025 • 7 mins
Doctors reveal the best airplane seat to avoid getting sick this season. #Christmas #Holiday #Travel
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Jody after the show podcast how.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
To not get sick when you travel over the holidays,
I mean, or people travel to you. It seems like
more than not lately after we've had our big holiday, Murphy,
somebody's sick.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Sadly, that's the way the last couple of years have been.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yeah, I don't even want to think about it. Well,
I want to let that in.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
We got lucky ourselves last year, I think, but did
it did a few of our family members wind up?
Last year was like the you know, the lucky break,
but we had extended family that got sick. We couldn't
hang out with them on Christmas even that's.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Right, so bad.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
It was like, no, she actually came and hung out
with us.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yeah, it was fun anyway.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
So we touched on this in Three Things to Note today,
and I think it's worth mentioning again doctors revealing best
airplane seats or the best seat to avoid getting sick
during the holidays if you have to travel and have
to fly anyway. And it's so interesting being the biggest
risk is not what you touch. And I'm so aware
of what I touch on an airplane because you have
to think about how many people have touched it before you.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I still think it's a risk, even if it is
the biggest you know.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
The biggest is the air you breathe.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Respiratory illnesses and viruses spread really easily through close contact.
And what happens in an airplane close contact with people
who have, you know, respiratory things that you don't know
where they came from.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
They circulated it ran new.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
To you, and recirculated air. It's one of the most
commonplaces to catch something.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
However, this is one thing that I looked up because
I know that there's been efforts over the last you know, years,
a couple of decades to improve that. So, yeah, only
about fifty percent of the airplane's air is recirculated wells
and I know I always thought it was worse than that.
So basically, with every five to seven minutes or so
on an average aircraft, it'll be brand new air that's
in the aircraft. It completely turns over it and they
(01:51):
use hospital grade HEPA filters, you know that, just like
your car has filters or whatever. Yeah, However that said,
I mean the person sitting next to you, if they're sick, Yeah,
it's not going to protect you from that. But at
least you know that, you know, somebody's sitting in the
front of the plane is not going to circulate through it.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
You know, ye come through, You're not to make you
wait for it.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Though, In case you missed three things today, the recommendation
is booking a window seat that's far away from the
restroom because that limits foot traffic and reduces how many
people pass close to your during the flight. So a
window seat so you're away from the passerbys and away
from the restroom. If you're right by the restroom, how
many people are going back and forth and back and forth.
(02:33):
Not fun?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
No, not a fun place to be.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Well, depending on the size aircraft you're on, they're going
to be you know, e lavoratories in the front end
of the back. I should point like the area in
the front of the back. But you know so that
might make it tricky.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well, you'd have to they don't get up during a
flight if.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
You were really wanting to. If it's something that you
are concerned about, you can always when you're booking your
flight look at the seating charge and see where that goes.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Is helmer if you don't, and.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Well, I'm just saying. And now that they've got most
of the airlines, have everything carved up into different sections. Yes,
of course you know this first class, but now there
are you know, two or three different classes sometimes after that,
and so business. Whatever you buy is where you're going
to be seated, even on Southwest after the.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
First of the air I try you know this about me.
You guys have traveled with me a lot. If I
don't have to on an airplane, I'm not getting up
and going to the restroom on an airplane.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I know, you don't the tiny.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Little bathroom, the weirdness.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Of that and just getting up and down, and I'd
rather just stay tucked into my window seat and if
it's a short enough light, I'll just start to the
airport bathroom.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yeah, after I think this time of year you also
see you know, more masks and other thing and that
works in both directions. By the way, if somebody's sick,
they're wearing a mask, and vice versa.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
A little bit helps the other recommended the air we
covered like the things that you're in a small space,
and that's how viruses spread through the air really easily
with close contact. But the other thing is surfaces do
matter like stomach bugs can survive sometimes for days and
are likely to spread through like trays, the little trays
(04:16):
and the airplane bathrooms. And the thing about it is
you have to touch the seat belt.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
You do.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And so I remember the first time I realized long ago,
you know, when I first started flying. Oh, I'm touching
this seat belt. I don't know how many seven hundred
other people touched it before me, since it's really been clean,
and I'm about to eat like peanuts or something, and
I just thought, whoa.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
And so, you know, wash your hand.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
The recommendation is wash your hands as much as possible
when traveling and during the entire cold and flu season,
because it is still the number one line of defense
that you have from getting sick. Washing hands first, then
using using antibacterial.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yes I am, I am mister OCD when it comes
to that. And a lot of times you aren't gonna
have direct access to hand washing. So keeping hand sanitizer
is certainly not a bad idea. And what you just
described to Jody, you know, sadly, unfortunately, there are a
lot of people that still do not wash their hands
when they leave the restroom, I know. And that's a
quick way to transmit something. You know that it's.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
You that they picked up that they didn't even realize
they picked exactly. They could have washed it off, picked
it up and washed it off in there, but they
didn't even realize. That's right, exactly, just washing away your stuff.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I saw a couple on a plane recently where the
wife whipped out her wipes as soon as they sat down. Yes,
started wiping down everything of hers and her husband's. Folded
down the tray. Wipe at the top of the tray,
grab the seat belts, wipe those, it's like they were clean.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Another thing to avoid, not just during travel and air travel,
but just during cold and flu season, is to try
to avoid touching your nose and mouth.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, that's another. I'm hyper aware of that one too.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I'm not I do it. I'm not aware of its.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Most people don't. I don't know that's my I say, OCD.
It's just over the years, I'm so cautious about that now.
I don't. I just don't touch my face. The reason
I don't touch my sandwiches. I know y'all think that's
funny too, well.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I mean, you touch your sandwiches at home.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Clarify well, yeah, I touch my sandwiches at home. But
if i'm we're out, if I'm out and i'm driving
somewhere or whatever and it's in a wrapper, I'm going
to hold it in the wrapper.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Classy eat classy on the road anyway. Those are your
number one line of defense. My favorite thing being the
hand washing thing. But if you can't do that on
an airplane, remember where you sit.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Well, even if you're not traveling on an airplane with
sandwich describing about the the wipes, if you're shopping and
a lot of grocery stores now will actually have the
hand sanitizer wipes there that you can wipe the cart
down with if you want. But those are the little
things that it's very easy to forget when you're in
a rush, that just that one little moment of contact
(06:59):
is what spreads.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
It's you doing all you can, like your body is
doing all it can to your body is it's miraculous
and can fight and fight and fight. But during cold
and flu season, and it's also the holiday thing for us,
you kind of open this with we always we often
get sick after Christmas. It's also people that you're never
in contact with. You're all of a sudden in close
(07:21):
contact with them for days during cold and flu season.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah, which is what causes all of it in the
first place.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Right, all right?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Missed any part of the show?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Get it all on the Murphy Salmon Jody podcast.
Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Jody after the show podcast how.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
To not get sick when you travel over the holidays,
I mean, or people travel to you. It seems like
more than not lately after we've had our big holiday, Murphy,
somebody's sick.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Sadly, that's the way the last couple of years have been.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yeah, I don't even want to think about it. Well,
I want to let that in.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
We got lucky ourselves last year, I think, but did
it did a few of our family members wind up?
Last year was like the you know, the lucky break,
but we had extended family that got sick. We couldn't
hang out with them on Christmas even that's.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Right, so bad.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
It was like, no, she actually came and hung out
with us.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yeah, it was fun anyway.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
So we touched on this in Three Things to Note today,
and I think it's worth mentioning again doctors revealing best
airplane seats or the best seat to avoid getting sick
during the holidays if you have to travel and have
to fly anyway. And it's so interesting being the biggest
risk is not what you touch. And I'm so aware
of what I touch on an airplane because you have
to think about how many people have touched it before you.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I still think it's a risk, even if it is
the biggest you know.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
The biggest is the air you breathe.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Respiratory illnesses and viruses spread really easily through close contact.
And what happens in an airplane close contact with people
who have, you know, respiratory things that you don't know
where they came from.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
They circulated it ran new.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
To you, and recirculated air. It's one of the most
commonplaces to catch something.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
However, this is one thing that I looked up because
I know that there's been efforts over the last you know, years,
a couple of decades to improve that. So, yeah, only
about fifty percent of the airplane's air is recirculated wells
and I know I always thought it was worse than that.
So basically, with every five to seven minutes or so
on an average aircraft, it'll be brand new air that's
in the aircraft. It completely turns over it and they
(01:51):
use hospital grade HEPA filters, you know that, just like
your car has filters or whatever. Yeah, However that said,
I mean the person sitting next to you, if they're sick, Yeah,
it's not going to protect you from that. But at
least you know that, you know, somebody's sitting in the
front of the plane is not going to circulate through it.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
You know, ye come through, You're not to make you
wait for it.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Though, In case you missed three things today, the recommendation
is booking a window seat that's far away from the
restroom because that limits foot traffic and reduces how many
people pass close to your during the flight. So a
window seat so you're away from the passerbys and away
from the restroom. If you're right by the restroom, how
many people are going back and forth and back and forth.
(02:33):
Not fun?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
No, not a fun place to be.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Well, depending on the size aircraft you're on, they're going
to be you know, e lavoratories in the front end
of the back. I should point like the area in
the front of the back. But you know so that
might make it tricky.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well, you'd have to they don't get up during a
flight if.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
You were really wanting to. If it's something that you
are concerned about, you can always when you're booking your
flight look at the seating charge and see where that goes.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Is helmer if you don't, and.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Well, I'm just saying. And now that they've got most
of the airlines, have everything carved up into different sections. Yes,
of course you know this first class, but now there
are you know, two or three different classes sometimes after that,
and so business. Whatever you buy is where you're going
to be seated, even on Southwest after the.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
First of the air I try you know this about me.
You guys have traveled with me a lot. If I
don't have to on an airplane, I'm not getting up
and going to the restroom on an airplane.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I know, you don't the tiny.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Little bathroom, the weirdness.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Of that and just getting up and down, and I'd
rather just stay tucked into my window seat and if
it's a short enough light, I'll just start to the
airport bathroom.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yeah, after I think this time of year you also
see you know, more masks and other thing and that
works in both directions. By the way, if somebody's sick,
they're wearing a mask, and vice versa.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
A little bit helps the other recommended the air we
covered like the things that you're in a small space,
and that's how viruses spread through the air really easily
with close contact. But the other thing is surfaces do
matter like stomach bugs can survive sometimes for days and
are likely to spread through like trays, the little trays
(04:16):
and the airplane bathrooms. And the thing about it is
you have to touch the seat belt.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
You do.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And so I remember the first time I realized long ago,
you know, when I first started flying. Oh, I'm touching
this seat belt. I don't know how many seven hundred
other people touched it before me, since it's really been clean,
and I'm about to eat like peanuts or something, and
I just thought, whoa.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
And so, you know, wash your hand.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
The recommendation is wash your hands as much as possible
when traveling and during the entire cold and flu season,
because it is still the number one line of defense
that you have from getting sick. Washing hands first, then
using using antibacterial.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yes I am, I am mister OCD when it comes
to that. And a lot of times you aren't gonna
have direct access to hand washing. So keeping hand sanitizer
is certainly not a bad idea. And what you just
described to Jody, you know, sadly, unfortunately, there are a
lot of people that still do not wash their hands
when they leave the restroom, I know. And that's a
quick way to transmit something. You know that it's.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
You that they picked up that they didn't even realize
they picked exactly. They could have washed it off, picked
it up and washed it off in there, but they
didn't even realize. That's right, exactly, just washing away your stuff.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I saw a couple on a plane recently where the
wife whipped out her wipes as soon as they sat down. Yes,
started wiping down everything of hers and her husband's. Folded
down the tray. Wipe at the top of the tray,
grab the seat belts, wipe those, it's like they were clean.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Another thing to avoid, not just during travel and air travel,
but just during cold and flu season, is to try
to avoid touching your nose and mouth.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, that's another. I'm hyper aware of that one too.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I'm not I do it. I'm not aware of its.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Most people don't. I don't know that's my I say, OCD.
It's just over the years, I'm so cautious about that now.
I don't. I just don't touch my face. The reason
I don't touch my sandwiches. I know y'all think that's
funny too, well.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I mean, you touch your sandwiches at home.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Clarify well, yeah, I touch my sandwiches at home. But
if i'm we're out, if I'm out and i'm driving
somewhere or whatever and it's in a wrapper, I'm going
to hold it in the wrapper.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Classy eat classy on the road anyway. Those are your
number one line of defense. My favorite thing being the
hand washing thing. But if you can't do that on
an airplane, remember where you sit.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Well, even if you're not traveling on an airplane with
sandwich describing about the the wipes, if you're shopping and
a lot of grocery stores now will actually have the
hand sanitizer wipes there that you can wipe the cart
down with if you want. But those are the little
things that it's very easy to forget when you're in
a rush, that just that one little moment of contact
(06:59):
is what spreads.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
It's you doing all you can, like your body is
doing all it can to your body is it's miraculous
and can fight and fight and fight. But during cold
and flu season, and it's also the holiday thing for us,
you kind of open this with we always we often
get sick after Christmas. It's also people that you're never
in contact with. You're all of a sudden in close
(07:21):
contact with them for days during cold and flu season.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah, which is what causes all of it in the
first place.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Right, all right?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Missed any part of the show?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Get it all on the Murphy Salmon Jody podcast.
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