Originally Posted by
ancman
The highlight of the conversation that will take place between the FAA’s Delta CMO and Handel will be “Hey, what’s our Saturday tee time at [choice of PTC country club] again?”
Many of the people who work in that office are retired old guard Delta goons, who are buddies with the old guard goons who still run Flight Ops. The FAA will be our absolute last advocate.
The letters will still backfire on management in many other ways, however.
yeah pretty much this. Anyone who ever worked at a regional knows that the FAA gives carriers pretty much whatever discretion they want over attendance policies. The FAA basically says, it’s illegal to fly sick, so call out, but if you call out too much, maybe you aren’t fit for the job so yeah your employer can fire you under poor reliability if that’s their policy.