Originally Posted by
Nacho Libre
If it’s not possible to determine future fatigue is it impossible to predict future illness? Say you’re on reserve and receive the appropriate notification sometimes well over 12 hours in advance and after notification you or someone that you can use qualified sick time to assist later becomes ill. It’s inconvenient for Frontier but it should not be punishable. Especially for pilots that must sign fitness for duty.
However, I can see that if a pilot were to be on short call and receive notification of a 2 hour callout and the pilot then advised CS that they are calling out sick is more difficult. There may still be valid situations. Kids and family are always a bit of a wildcard.
If you are on reserve and you are sick. Why would you burn a sick day for just over 4hrs of pay if you wouldn't get called, when you could just tell them you were sick if you did get called.....
In new, standard, pilot contracts, there is a thing where you can call CS, tell them you are sick, and if they need to use you, THEN they pull a sick day. If you wouldn't get used for your day, then no sick day gets used.
If you aren't fit to fly, you aren't fit to fly.