If we allow it to accrue and then pay out later people will fly sick

I don’t like them giving us 270 and then harassing us to use all 270. But with Galileo app it should be easy to appease them with doctors notes now for any complaint- so it just costs me 20 bucks to get a note for my sinus pressure.

It sounds to me like the company is worried we will use sick time to modify our schedule- to be fare- I am sure there is a large contingent of people that do that.

The solution would be to have so many APDs available to a pilot that there would be no reason to call in sick to a rotation when it could be dropped with an APD several days in advance giving the company ample time to fill the rotation with a long call reserve

Easy problem to solve.