Originally Posted by DrJekyll MrHyde

You have to notify the company months in advance that you’ll be taking FMLA, there is no specific “paternity leave.” And if you take FMLA you’ll find yourself zeroed out on sick days with all your vacation for the current year and following year depleted in the most inefficient means possible. For instance, if you take off 21 days using the FMLA, you lose 21 days of vacation and sick time unless you chose to be unpaid for any portion of that time. Instead most people use 7 days of vacation in two consecutive months and can find themselves with nearly 52 out of 60 days off over two months; all while only using 14 days of vacation. Maybe bang out sick for another couple 4-day trips and you have all 60 days off for 8 sick days and 14 vacation used in total.

In short, FMLA is garbage here, just like every other“perk” we have at Frontier. You always have to play the system at Frontier to get what most airlines give willingly to their pilots.