Originally Posted by goalie

and Rest In Peace

Originally Posted by dilanesp

They really do risk their health for our safety and comfort. They come into contact with so many travelers.

Originally Posted by PVDtoDEL

I was really sad to hear this news - probably the first of many airline employees who will be impacted by the virus as they keep the country connected through this crisis


Let's be very clear - passenger airlines are not continuing to operate to "make a dollar" - they're realistically losing a lot of money on every flight they run, and they continue to operate as a public service to keep essential personnel and goods moving around the country.

A great example is enabling air cargo airlines (UPS, FedEx, DHL, Amazon Air, etc.) to continue operation - It's not so trivial to "keep flights open for cargo" without domestic passenger service since pilots for cargo airlines rely on passenger flights to commute to/from home and also for deadhead legs (very common in the air cargo industry due to pilot contractual provisions to protect circadian rhythms of pilots during overnight flying periods).

Grounding passenger flights would immediately have severe impacts on supply chains across the country. Mail service would be severely delayed, companies like Amazon wouldn't be able to deliver goods to customers in need in a timely manner, pharmaceutical companies wouldn't be able to quickly move medical supplies to hospitals and pharmacies, etc.

Originally Posted by clubord

Unfortunately, we lost another EWR coworker today.

Originally Posted by nachosdelux

true, but he is still dead. why does it matter where he was infected?????