Originally Posted by
Moby Dick
BTW, how many days did he fly when he was sick. No one has perfect health over the course of a 45 year career. I bet his F/Os loved him coming to work coughing and sneezing in the closed flight deck environment.
A real American hero.
This. Never calling in sick once over the course of 45 years is the absolute last thing I would brag about. Unless the guy has simply superhuman health, that's admitting to flying sick and encouraging others to do the same.
I mean, why does the guy even consider it a good thing? Does he have some farked up 19th century Dickensian value system where even legitimately use of sick time is cheating your employer?
Never met the guy and friends who have say he's a class act. But this shouldn't be held up as an example of model behavior by him, DAL management, or anyone else.