Table 1.

Reports of in-flight transmission of infection with seat maps indicating infectious and infected passengers

Disease	Aircraft	Origin	Destination	Flight Time (Hours:Minutes)	No. of Cases Within ±2 Rows/No. at Risk	No. of Cases Beyond ±2 Rows/No. at Risk
SARS14	Boeing 737	Hong Kong	Beijing	3:00	9/29	9/75
SARS13	∗	Hanoi†	Paris	14:50	1/9	1/60
Influenza A/H1N1/p094	Boeing 747	Los Angeles	Auckland	12:40	4/67	0/52
Influenza A/H1N1/p0922	Boeing 767	‡	Birmingham, UK	9:30	2/39	4/242
Influenza A/H1N1/p09	Boeing 767	Cancun	Birmingham, UK	9:30	5/128	4/43
Influenza-like illness23	British Aerospace 146	§	§	3:20	9/24	8/50
Measles9	‖	‖	‖	‖	9/343¶	11/750¶

SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome.

^∗Aircraft was not given. The flight was Air France 171, so it presumably was on an Airbus aircraft.

^†Flight was direct with 1 stop in Bangkok, where the passenger deplaned and then reboarded.

^‡Flight was from Mexico to Birmingham, UK. Neither city nor airport of origin was given. The plane had 282 seats.

^§Reported in a letter to the editor. Origin and destination airports were not given. The flight was to a remote mining community in northwestern Australia.

^‖Authors reported data on 7 flights on which 9 passengers who were seated within ±2 rows of an infectious passenger became infected. Aircraft types were not given. The average flight time was 6 hours, 5 minutes.

^¶Conservatively assumed that all 7 flights were on large long-haul carriers with 300-passenger capacity and estimated 10 seats per row.