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Old 12-06-2022, 12:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Bluedriver View Post
Anyone have a good explanation for how/why JB has 800 more pilots for the same flying?

3rd fleet? SQ?

The pairings are brutal, so it can't be that they aren't efficiently (from a company perspective) using pilots. No more soft time as an example.
Can’t speak specifically for JB, but between high attrition and high sick call rates, a number of airlines are hurting for butts in seats:


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if you got COVID - even if it’s your third case and just the sniffles, quarantine recommendations are still the same:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019...isolation.html

Influenza is almost as bad:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/business/sta...-when-sick.htm

I wouldn’t want to be working scheduling currently.
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