We live just north of the base, so see F/A-18’s, C-130’s, and Ospreys all the time.
This morning glancing out the window I saw a Boeing 747 landing.
Not a presidential fund-raiser (AF 1 flew here last time for that); but per local news a plane load of US citizens being flown from Wuhan via Travis AFB for quarantine.

Link: local NBC news

Meantime my wife and I are quarantining ourselves as we just got back from a trip to New Zealand where there were mainland Chinese all around us on planes, a bus, and a cruise boat.

Man I hope those Kalitta guys either get to say no or get some premium pay.

Skeds: Hey we have a revision to your trip. You know that thing on the news? Yeah, fly right into that.

Our guys are fighting like hell to stay off the mainland right now and scheduling has canceled a lot of trips. We still go into HK with merry abandon though, but the company is looking out for us. Masks and saniwipes for all.

Oh, and the company just posted 3 month outbases for 4 Chinese cities. Some pay whores will take them though, I'm sure.

This is what jr reserve guys are for, hey just fly this one trip, and we’ll give you 2 weeks off, and a place to stay !!!!!

My in-laws live right next to Travis AFB where they just flew in like 350 evacuees.

quote:

Originally posted by furlough:
Man I hope those Kalitta guys either get to say no or get some premium pay.

Not sure if the Brussels Air got extra for all the airlift they did during the West Africa ebola outbreak. Wonder if there's any in-flight service

Since the virus can't live very long in the open air, the threat of infection to the flight-deck crew is low, just use the shitter before the cattle get on. Chicken pox is more contageious. Nevertheless, quarantine the passengers, carry anti-bacterial wipes, Purell and load-up on thera-flu.

I've been asking questions of a very highly respected ID doc I know. I was concerned when I ran the numbers on infections to deaths. Seems 2% fatality is what I'm coming up with based on reported stats (nothing official and I could be wrong). He stated that this high rate is driven by underlying health status. Especially lung disease. China has a lot of smokers and a lot of air pollution. In the U.S., we can get people thru bad viral pneumonia with vent support and ECMO.

Still, you don't want it, right!? But I took comfort in that, so I thought I'd pass it along in case anyone else here made the mistake of calculating the percentages.