Originally Posted by
Viper446
You can NOT jumpseat home on the company if you are sick in the field. The company is supposed to buy you a ticket home. I had this happen to me. I talked to the DO about jumpseating home when I was sick on a trip. He said it was OK. I then called CP Jeff K and he said no. He said the company didn't want to have the crew have to worry about evacuating a guy off the jet in an emergency. I know, there are lots of scenarios of why being sick wouldn't be a hinderance to the crew. He said the company will buy you a ticket back. They bought me a ticket. I called the CP because I knew a guy that got in deep s%$# for jumpseating sick. The company's issue was if he was ok to jumpseat, why wasn't he ok to fly? Just sayin' what I heard.
I know of a number of times this has been "waived" by management - I know first hand of a Capt that fell on the ice in ANC then flew to AFW, by the time he got to AFW both wrists were swollen and in pain. One was broken. He jump seated back to ANC the next day with both wrists in splints.
Also, the Capt that got beat up in Paris a few yrs ago while "just walking by a subway station at night" jump seated back to Memphis a few hrs after getting released from the hospital. His arm was in a sling, he had visible sutures and staples on his face and head, one eye was so swollen it looked like half an egg plant and who knows what meds were still in his system. I saw and talked to him myself in CDG ops as I was revised to operate his flight to MEM (we went 18 hrs late as I went fatigue in the field - that's another story
) and he jump seated back on the other MEM flight. An ambulance met that plane in MEM and he was carried off on a gurney.