Originally Posted by
2cylinderdriver
exactly, just compare it to a monthly vacation buy back. You get paid for the vacation plus the penalty and you earn your RLG/BLG on top of that. Normally sick/vacation are simply forms of crediting RLG/BLG hours and the pilot does not double (or more) earn those hours. The sick leave buy back under the current CBA is just being expanded to "encourage" people to earn all of their credit hours and not credit sick back hours, so the Company pays the pilot all of his RLG/BLG and potentially pays out up to 110K additional. The pilot who uses or drains the DSA is just using those hours as paid time off, just like vacation.
A pilot who is fortunate to not have any major ailments and wants to work "normally" until they retire can benefit from that good fortune. I know a number of pilots who walked with 686 and they deposited hours almost every year of unused regular sick time but have to walk leaving the bank on the table unless they happen to be sick and drain the account. This process does not entice flying sick anymore than the current RSA/DSA process.
Well, if you do call in sick during your last two years, the sick pay does not count toward your "over $520K". So, it does encourage flying while you're sick
And, does the $68,000,000 include the money saved by the company, by having guys flying their arses off, the last two years, trying to make the "$740K" required to even get to the point that they buy 1/2 of your sick bank. That's a lot of extra flying.
By the way...$68million equates to 618+/- guys leaving with a full sick bank AND making over $740K, their last 2 years.