Originally Posted by
CheapTrick
It won't work. I felt like you do. Then I saw the data. I came away going "No wonder the company is ****ed about sick leave." The stats are damning. And surprizing. I was very irritated that I had to sit in a sick leave abuse briefing and I came out the other side realizing I was wrong. We've got some guys impressively abusing the sick leave benefits. And the worst abusing categories are younger FO's and anyone over 64.
There is a staggering amount of abuse however it involves a very small subset of pilots. The difficulty is crafting a solution that does not penalize all of us for the actions of a small minority.