I heard about using sick to cover DTS on here a few months ago. I've DTS every vacation I've had in the 6 years here. Never once used sick, but I liked the idea. I had a pay issue in August I emailed about and at the end asked about it. She responded that yes you can use sick time to cover your DTS flying however the request needs to be in by the 5th of the month. I had vacation in September, emailed off my request and it was changed in my HI1 within a day. Easy.

As far as someone else saying they're not sure if this is a loophole and don't let management know. Would they rather we use sick time to cover DTS hours that they know about prior to the month even starting and can throw lines to composite and relief guys, or randomly bang in an hour prior to departures? Sick pay is part of the pay package, it behoves them to let us use it in a controlled manner.