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Jetblue And The Physiology Of Profit JetBlue received a reprimand last week from the FAA for encouraging pilots to fly beyond their flight and duty time, as part of a company experiment to study pilot fatigue. Pilots flew as many as 11 hours a day on more than 50 flights in May 2005, to examine various states of human alertness. The 29 pilots in the study wore motion detectors on their wrists. In addition, hand-held devices issuing prompts and recorded…

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