Houston, Texas, March 19, 2021 – PrimeFlight Aviation Services is leveraging UV-C technology with its line of patent-pending surface disinfection designs tailored to the aviation industry. UV-C lamps have been shown to be effective against microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, and pathogens, and are trusted in medical and water treatment facilities. PrimeFlight has tailored the concept to the unique needs of the aviation industry with PrimeFlightUV.
“With more than 5,000 employees serving airport and airline customers across the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico, and the impact of the COVID pandemic on our business and that of our airline customers, we have a deep understanding of the concern over controlling any spread of pathogens,” PrimeFlight EVP Ed Zwirn explained. “We saw the need to increase confidence in commercial travel through a focus on disinfection thereby helping the industry to rebound as quickly and as safely as possible. While there are no known applications that are 100% effective, we feel strongly that our PrimeFlightUV solutions can assist our industry in keeping employees, airline customers, and passengers safe as air travel begins to return to pre-COVID levels.”
PrimeFlight’s line of UV-C disinfection solutions can be used to protect essential workers and passengers by disinfecting baggage, aircraft cabins, wheelchairs, luggage carts, galley carts, security bins, and more. Manufactured through ProFlo Industries, a PrimeFlight company, there are several PrimeFlightUV solutions currently being field tested.
The company’s portable wheelchair disinfection unit is currently in use at several airports across the U.S., while the TSA is currently testing PrimeFlight’s security bin disinfection units at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA). Additional prototypes are in development for aircraft cabin, galley cart, baggage, cargo and equipment disinfection. More information on PrimeFlightUV can be found at primeflight.com/primeflightuv.
