That’s an industry myth. People who are healthy and take care of themselves do just fine as WB pilots. The grossly overweight regional CA standing in line for Whataburger and Bullritos is limiting his life expectancy also.

It's not a myth. WB sit for 12 plus hours, crossing multiple time zones each week. This reduces your life expectancy, ask any doctor.

Everything in life can affect you one way or the other. Take care of your body and it will take care of you.

ps-I have talked with my docs at Northwestern and they agree with Read

you don’t sit for 12 hours....if you’re proactive. You get up, stretch your arms and legs, sleep a little bit. You also make the effort to get some exercise at your layover instead of feasting and drinking.

what you are saying is true of SOME people. Those guys are great. They will vacate the seniority list a little sooner for the rest of us.

You don’t just sit there for 12 plus hours. You sit for 6 hours, and then you’re horizontal for the duration in a very quiet and fairly comfortable bed. When I get to the layover I usually take a nap, exercise, and go have a healthy meal. After that it’s a good night sleep, a nice quiet breakfast, and then repeat. I feel much better doing this than when I was up and down multiple times a day, airport appreciation breaks, multiple bag drags to short layovers, etc. The difference in health stats is how people take care of themselves, not what type of flying they do.

RO7,
It's no myth.
It's a proven fact.
Not sure how long you've been in the business.
Do some home work before you speak of what you do not know.

701EV

20+ years in a rj doesn’t exactly give one much room to say what long haul flying is like. For those that don’t take care of themselves it can put some hard miles on the body. I never see those guys in the gym. Once you learn what works for you, WB flying is what you make of it. I fly productive trips, get a bunch of sleep, and I’m in pretty good shape for a older guy. My trips involve a 12 hr duty day going out, and a 14 hour day heading home with a 3-3.5 hour break in the bunks. I don’t go bar hopping with the guys, but I’m much more healthy than those who do.

JB resigned today from his ALPA position after he basically yelled, “FIRE!” in the theatre. Apparently that was a violation of his NDA with what he said. This revelation he discovered could not be withheld from his coworkers because it supposedly directly effected their lives but he never shared what the news actually was in any detail. He just said, “Horrible things are coming soon! Get your logbooks up to date!” He got everybody all worked up and ALPA asked for his resignation. He should have went ahead and spilled the beans since he was asked to resign over it.

Wow, such a shame that such an astute, upstanding, and person of integrity had to step down....

Does that mean he'll resurface here under his 4-5th username and go back to flaming people?

umm people generally liked flying for Compass. They just lost most of their flying...
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