Originally Posted by
AxlF16
You qualify if you are:
I don't see how not wanting to take the vaccine meets that requirement. The COVID vaccination isn't related to our fitness for a Class I. On Oct 15th a pilot with a medical exemption is in exactly the same position relative to their Class I as they were on Sept 1st. Seems straightforward to me. How do you read this?
Yeah, but you left out the most important part...
"A Pilot is considered to be disabled under the LTD Plan if the Pilot is ineligible to exercise the privileges of the Airman Medical Certificate that the Company requires to operate in the Pilot’s bid position as the result of an injury or
medical condition."
This is the same language in the expanded policy as well.
It doesn't mention your ability to maintain an FAA physical, just that you can or can't exercise your certificate as a result of that condition. If you received a medical RA and then the company no longer allows you to exercise your certificate in your BES, it certainly would seem to qualify to me. I'm assuming that the RAP was legitimate enough to only afford RAs to those with supported conditions, not just those who didn't want to get it for whatever reason. I have no idea how many of the people in that group were religious/medical RAs, so this is largely academic. There's likely so few of them that we may never actually know what happens.