That's a pretty broad brush. I know the urban legend of guys calculating to the minute when they could go out, but I didn't know any personally. Since you seem to be in the know, could you give us some statistics on how many guys did this? Also, while your at it give us a breakdown of how many pmdal guys called in sick towards the end and used dpma?
One other thing is that he did lose some. With 2200 hours he could of stayed out for 27.5 months at 80hrs. I also believe(and I'm sure i'll be corrected if wrong) we had the option of taking less than 80/month. IE: 70hrs/month would have bought him 31 months. Like Timbo said, under dpma the more senior one is, the less of your paycheck is reimbursed. Still a good program and one which I hope to never have to tap.
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Erdude32
Again, you didn't "lose" anything. You now have free DPMA, which I have to pay into, you have 270/yr to use EVERY year AND you have up to 24 mos of coverage. The only thing you "lost" was the ability to call in sick your last 2200 hrs before you retire. I'm glad the company changed it up, obviously they had a reason and the amount of pmnwa guys flying sick for years to accumulate thousands of hours of sick leave and then go out in long term sick the last Couple of years ruined it for everyone.