Originally Posted by DeadHead

Technically, they are asking you how many times you called in sick and not how often do you get sick. Semantics, I know, but I think it's fair enough of a question.

Only advice I have here is to be 100% honest because they will look into it and it'll be in your records. Heard a story when I went through about a newhire being pulled from sim training and sent home because he mislead the interviewers in believing he had much less sick calls then actual. ( 2-3 as opposed to over 15-18 )

I don't think the sick calls are as big an issue as everyone makes out to be. I'm guessing once your calling out more than 10 random times throughout the year you may have to explain yourself a little, but being honest goes a long way.