Originally Posted by
FlyinRabbit88
It was the FO that was sick and called CS in Carlsbad saying he would help the company by flying the leg to lax then would need to be replaced on the trip once in Lax. This was an ideal practice unless you were really sick, so you could get home while not canceling flights at an outstation. In this incident it burned the two pilots and the company, causing the FAA to come down on all parties and change policy at Skywest.
There seems to be a lot of people who want to help the company out and that is the difference SW had for a long time. But I just want to remind the new guys (or maybe all the pilots) of what happened when this FO helped the company out. His reward was a couple months off without pay and I don't remember the company having his back. I may have my facts off, but I thought there was a lot of frustration on SAPA's part as they were trying to help get both pilots back on the line and there was little support on the company side. This of course was back in the day when we had a President that wasn't afraid to call the company out and be vocal to the pilots of what was going on.
Who knows, maybe this loss of license thing that SAPA is focusing all the resources on may have helped the pilots in this case? /sarcasm