If you have any input regarding sick leave, now is the time to share your thoughts with our reps.

We have had very little input and very few know it is going to change.

As I said 3 years ago, the new talking points by management will be:

We can't staff the air line.

You need to make concessions because we can't grow.

Then the usual suspects will start crying and force unnecessary concessions by spreading these threats.

Call your reps and share your feedback. They work for you.

The staffing problem gets bigger each and every day for the next 10-15 years and the fun has just begun. By 2017/2018 over 500 captains will retire annually. There is no way that works with 9 fleets and 8 pilot bases. Concessions are coming our way.

You would think after the CDO cluster our leaders would be more forthcoming.

Sick leave is changing, count on it.