Originally Posted by
spooldup
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.
Thats not correct. There’s no sick days in other agreements. It’s credit based. Not day based. Pretty sure if you call in sick and are not available for a res period the appropriate credit is getting removed from your bank. That's why in the contract comparison it’s a defined number of credit for a res period sick call.
Last edited by fcoolaiddrinker; 01-08-2026 at 11:56 AM.