Originally Posted by sailingfun

You were required to verify under the prior contract. The criteria was different however for the vast majority of the pilot group the current contract is better. Since only a small percentage of pilots exceed 100 hours of sick leave a year it’s highly unlikely there was a 18% reduction due to verification.
If there is a 18% reduction it’s probably due to elimination of tactical sick calls for greenslipping[/COLOR]. The ability to generate triple pay with a sickout is gone.