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Rows of economy class seats inside a wide-body airliner cabin, the environment where cruise-altitude humidity can drop to single digits.

Why Airplane Cabin Air Is Drier Than the Sahara Desert

Cruising-altitude air holds almost no moisture to begin with, and the engineering that makes a cabin breathable squeezes out most of what little is left.

Science  · 14 Sep 2026, 09:25  · Daniel Okafor