Originally Posted by
dragon
Last week the DTW CPO said they only call 1-2 per day and they average 48 or so guys on sick on any given day. He further that ATL determines who gets called and was not sure of the triggering metric.
RUMOR says the triggering metric is statistical.
2 standard deviations from the mean or greater are getting called. (For math gurus its the Empirical Rule equating to about 5% of the group)
No word on what happens if more pilots call in the sick and the standard deviation changes.
END RUMOR
Sorry, fixed it to read the Empirical rule, a little rusty on sadistics.