Originally Posted by
rickair7777
The pain, according to flight ops management, wasn't just reserves struggling with their commute.
It was a significant trend of LC reserves who would get a call out, then wait a few hours and call in sick. That's technically legal since you could *hypothetically* get food poisoning or whatever within that 14 hour window. But then it was too late to get another LC there in time.
Again, according to management, FWIW.
That just means they aren't converting enough reserves to short call to cover close in sick calls. I know it's crazy, but reserves wake up not feeling well too. Compound that with the fact that their new model is to staff reserves around 12% and they get what they get.