Originally Posted by FangsF15

My recollection is that it was # of pilots who were out sick on any given day. There was a baseline with very little variation on all other days of the year. But every single holiday (and now that tennis brings it up, the month of May when folks are about to ‘rollover’ too) had a ‘spike’ several orders of magnitude above the baseline, and on the “big” holidays, several more orders of magnitude.

Have you ever read Freakonomics? I guarantee if you saw it, you would have grasped in an instant what was going on. It was quite obvious. I guess I’m not sure why some folks are finding it so hard to believe, and/or so easily dismiss that it was a thing. It was raw data, not processed or manipulated. Data is data. The likelihood that several orders of magnitude more pilots are legitimately sick, and that it’s only on holidays, is zero.


Im making no value judgement on what the company is doing about it. Only that there absolutely are pilots who are, in the aggregate, obviously cheating on at least some holiday sick calls.