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Old Mar 11, 2020, 8:16 pm
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Originally Posted by rdurlabhji
Right - do the pilots stay on the plane? Does every pilot have to have a 14 day quarantine when they get back? Seems like a logistical nightmare not to mention the risks to the air crew.
Even if you had 2 crews, one each way, crews never leave the plane, or a stop in GUM with a single crew taking the plane GUM-CHINA-GUM, again, never leaving the plane, there are still issues before the added costs. What if the plane went MX while it was there? Also, I'm sure there is some direct human to human contact while on the ground there.

Which raises the next question, how are the freight only carriers doing it? UPS, etc?
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