Originally Posted by
rickair7777
They've made it clear that they believe there's basically abuse occurring. Of course it's going to happen occasionally, like anything else. But it's apparent they think it's happening way to much...
People sitting LC, hoping to not get called, and having no intent to come in if they do.
Commuters get called, realize the loads aren't good so they bang out.
People who get sick in a reserve block, hope they don't get called, then bang out when they do lot easier to do on LC than SC).
And even the occasional LC person who gets called, goes out for Mexican, then has to go call out legit sick. It all adds up.
I never see that down south honestly. People either have plenty of bank, don't care if they get the payout, or just don't get sick. I'm in the later group, but not everyone is so fortunate (especially if you have little kids).
It's higher because every other base is basically an opposite flip of commuter/local. At one point, almost every base was 80% local pilot except SFO, which was 80% commuter. Locals in SEA on LCC getting converted every other day isn't as big of an impact as the majority of them are locals.
I am not saying SAN will see the exact same percentage of this, but if the commuter percentage is higher than SEA, sick calls will be higher than SEA, I guarantee it.