Originally Posted by
Buck Rogers
One of the big issues that they eliminated was pilots calling in sick to create enough overhead in block hours flown to be able to turn around and then pick up a green slip. Especially during the usually " critically manned" summer months!!!!!!. Naw. Nobody would ever do that, we are professional pilots, by God, with the highest standards..... Right, the company wastes negotiating capital jousting at Quiotiesque windmills....how dare I insinuate that anyone would do anything unethical or for reasons that line their pockets......???????
Well, not now since you go to the bottom of the list for GS.... unless of course you happen to be an A350 capt where they are giving out GSWC
I haven't encountered many pilots who think the GS re:sick event change in the last contract was necessarily bad. I'm fine with it myself.
As far as the handling of sick and how it affects GS assignment... I talked to a 350 pilot who was told by a scheduler that he "went to the bottom of the list for 30 days after sicking out of a trip". Kind of scary to think schedulers can have that level of misunderstanding about our contract. I think/hope they don't manually create the GS list, though, so that person's misunderstanding hopefully doesn't actually affect anyone.