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HelloNewnan
I'd be very, very careful quoting any of that. Those guys took management at their 100% word, and my bet is once you started picking apart the data, there were all kinds of BS assumptions to make it look like the way it did. You can make all the pretty graphs you want, but if the underlying data is fudged, you get bad math. So they can "claim" abuse, that didn't mean there was any going on.
When you look at data in a macro sense, like total sick days used on a 365-segmented X-axis, and every blip above a baseline lines up with a holiday or sought after day off, it speaks for itself. I’m no fan of ALPA in most instances, but not sure how ALPA is “fudging” those numbers. It was ALPA-tracked data.
It’s just a fact that a statistically significant number of pilots are “suddenly” sick on every single holiday.