No way the story jumps a couple months no matter what is happening. You have too much going on and in ch 2 Tavi even said they had only 8-10 months before all the survivors were wiped out. Its too much to take care of in too short a timespan for them to jump ahead. Not to mention the plots involving all the other characters.
In most of the books the plot jumps ahead several weeks on numerous occasions. The book will have to have several instances where the story jumps ahead several weeks because you can't fit the daily happenings of 10 months into a 700 page book. The only way the story won't have time skips is if it all takes place in a couple weeks, which I don't see happening.
Your own argument of there being so many loose-ends to wrap up works for there being time skips because that's just more information that has to be squeezed into a book with limited space. There is only enough room to put in important plot points, so things like travel time will most likely be skipped.
