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DALMD88FO
I will add on one more about the survey and sick leave. There were questions about what if we had a sick bank that was paid out each year if it's not used or something to that effect. I wrote that this would be a huge mistake. Just like the flight attendants with their PPT, which can be used as sick time, it will never be used. You will have guys/gals on their deathbeds crawling into the cockpit so that they get the max payout amount. I had a system like this at a 121 supplemental airline while on furlough. You would get a quaterly bonus if you didn't call in sick and an annual additional bonus if you made it a year. I know that a lot of you will say "We know if we are too sick to fly", however I've seen to the contrary. Even under the current system at Delta.
I tend to agree with this line of thinking, but I wonder how my former North colleagues feel about the system they had prior to the merger. Did that system provide any "encouragement" to preserve sick hours for some catastrophic event later in life, and thus incentivize some pilots to fly sick?