Originally Posted by Qotsaautopilot

I think you need to read it. A brain surgeon is a "reasonable occupation". It meets 80% of your predisability earnings and you can be educated and trained to do it. If you are healthy but otherwise cannot meet the criteria to hold a first class medical you are "able" to be employed as a brain surgeon. The policy doesn't say you have to be employed as one it just says you have to be "able" to be trained to be one, which you can.

Listen, you don't have to like how it's interpreted but that's exactly how the insurance company, spirit, and our own Alpa committee have interpreted it. I've spoken to them directly. If after 2 years you aren't completely crippled you're not getting any more money whether or not you can get your medical certificate back.

If you want to vote for a contract that risks millions in career earnings when you lose your medical for something completely outside of your control, by all means do so. That is your right. But ANY contract that has our current LTD will be voted against by me.

1. SCOPE
2. LTD
3. The sum of pay rates, retirement, and work rules