Originally Posted by flyallnite

Let's discuss the new FAA Leave. What is it?

It's the hammer that the new Master, DHS, will use to keep you in line. Who tells DHS what to do? Well, the company pays them. So they do.

So what is FAA Leave then? It's unpaid, indeterminate, limbo.

Why would you be placed on FAA Leave? For any reason the DHS, your new Master, deems appropriate. It's possible you may never know the reason.

You and your dependents will have to apply for COBRA, and you can't non rev. No unemployment because technically, you aren't unemployed. It's not disability, so no DPMA. You are 'parked'.

Until you can behave, or be more productive, or wear your hat, or anything that the DHS feels is in the company's best interest. It really doesn't matter the reason, because as pilots, our medical is our livelihood. That's why your union, in association with the company, agreed to set it up.

Now they control you. Pretty neat, huh.