Originally Posted by ancman

While I agree with your premise, I wouldn’t say that we actually have 120 hours of zero verification sick time each year. Making it to 120 annually (assuming 4 or 5 sick calls on average) WITHOUT receiving a GFB is now the exception rather than the norm.

Obviously it’s a different story if a pilot reaches 120 via one or two long duration sick calls, or if they used fewer than 50 hours of sick in the previous year.