Originally Posted by
Alan Shore
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?
I definitely preferred our system. I had over 2,200 hours of sick time banked and never once flew when sick. I considered it my primary long term disability benefit.
Carl