Originally Posted by texas1970

ASAPing the letter won’t do anything. The FAA has long held that airlines can set their own reliability policies and standards. The FAA believes that these two things are not mutually exclusive:
- Pilots are legally required to self-ground when they are sick, which in our case means calling in sick.
- Employers can discipline pilots that are determined to be unreliable.

This is why pretty much all regional airlines have “points” systems that are far more punitive than we have. Call out sick too much, you get disciplined or discharged. From the FAAs perspective, if you following the FARs and calling out when required makes you an unreliable employee, your employer is allowed to take action on that.

All of this is why we have union protection and a PWA. Why do you think the company sent these BS letters rather than issuing actual discipline? It’s because they can’t issue any discipline, as they have no cause under the PWA to do so. That is where our protection lies. The FAA is not going to come help us.