Originally Posted by vessbot

I had a similar experience, and it didn't even go up to the upper levels of flight ops management. I had to bail out of a trip due to a similar emergency, and I just told told CS that I'm leaving due to a serious emergency after this leg (to a base... good for getting a reserve, and good for me getting a flight outta there to the other coast.) I did this with the full confidence that if called on to explain myself, it would end there. I didn't think to ask about positive space, the scheduler set it up for me from his own volition.

I'm recounting this to show from my experience that the attitudes you got from the Chief Pilot are suffused throughout the whole company (or least any part I interacted with), and throughout my whole experience I never worried about it coming out the wrong way.