Yes - let's concentrate on the sick day useage rather than any of the following:
Flanigan first joined Delta as a mechanic 45 years ago, with hopes of one day flying. A year later, in 1969, he was drafted into the Army for two years. Using the GI Bill and money saved from his Delta wages, Flanigan managed to pay for pilot training at a time when few other African-Americans were flying commercial airliners. He realized his dream in 1976, when he became a first officer flying DC-9s for Delta.
Flanigan is retiring after 25 years as a captain and a record eight years as Delta's senior pilot.
Delta says Flanigan has logged more than 26,000 flight hours and flown roughly 12.5 million miles. He's landed at 95 destinations on six continents.
If I need a day off for being sick - I'm going to use a annual leave day before I use sick leave.
I'm going to bank my sick days. I do have a max annual allowed and I have no limit on sick.
At the end of a career, I can apply my sick towards retirement.
I don't know if the Captain is under a similar system or not, but it certainly isn't admitting to anything *illegal* if at the end of my career I hadn't used a sick day.
Some people's glass half empty just spilled and they need to find something wrong in everything.
