FedEx Pilot Life Expectancy
11-13-2018 | 08:07 PM
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Do the same thing for JetBlue and the first couple of hits that actually are jetblue pilot funerals are 62 and a guy who crashed his kit built jet who was presumably under 65. Google Searches aren't science.
11-13-2018 | 08:45 PM
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As an East coast Southwest pilot flying PM trips, I rarely get to sleep before 2 - 3 am body time, especially on West coast layovers. Not sure FedEx is that much worse. Few Southwest hotels are adequate for sleeping much past 8 am local.
11-14-2018 | 04:18 AM
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11-14-2018 | 05:59 AM
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11-14-2018 | 04:20 PM
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12 hour layovers at the holiday inn with the noisy wall mounted AC can suck it.
I like the job and the time off, but she ain’t the prettiest girl at the dance. I’m still young so I can bounce back after these trips. Thinking about flying a bunch of legs a day in a guppy full of the hoi polloi when I’m 60....eh, we’ll see.
11-14-2018 | 04:35 PM
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Ultimately, your question is, "will the night flying at a cargo company cause me to die younger than if I fly at a passenger carrier."
Bottom line: nobody knows.
There is no data that controls for all the other lifestyle and career factors that will tell you such a thing.
Even if such data did exist, the FedEx of today is not the same company (in terms of schedules, fleets, stresses, etc) that the current "dead guys" flew at, anyway.
Bottom line: nobody knows.
There is no data that controls for all the other lifestyle and career factors that will tell you such a thing.
Even if such data did exist, the FedEx of today is not the same company (in terms of schedules, fleets, stresses, etc) that the current "dead guys" flew at, anyway.
11-15-2018 | 04:10 AM
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We live long enough or have a bad enough retirement that old retired guys come back as office helpers or fly caravans for our freighter operators.
So at the very least we have fedex guys that outlive their retirement funds.
So at the very least we have fedex guys that outlive their retirement funds.
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