Eli5: Airlines avoiding high altitude sickness

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How do airlines avoid high altitude sickness for their passengers?

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Passenger planes pressurize the cabin to stay around the air pressure you’d experience at 7,000 feet.

Enough to make your ears pop and make you slightly sleepy, but not dramatic enough to ruin you like Mt. Everest.

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