Originally Posted by
tennisguru
That’s the true data we need. We shouldn’t be comparing this winter to our previous winters. We need to compare our sick increase vs the sick increase at the other legacy carriers. If we spiked say 50% but UA and AA spike the same (or even more) then there is really no case to say that the increase was due to the suspension on look back. If, however, UA and AA spiked 50% but we spiked 100% then it would more stand to reason that at least some of our increase was due to look back suspension vs the bad flu season.
There’s a case to be made that the company’s pressure on pilots to verify sick occurrences actually pressures them to fly when they should not. The suspension of that inappropriate pressure now allows pilots to make the correct fly or don’t fly decision. The data needn’t implicate pilots for doing anything improper - it should show that the verification systems Delta chooses to use (that are not present elsewhere) are actually diminishing our safety. They are normalizing Pilot-pushing.
Policies matter. For years we extended far more than other carriers - and probably sacrificed safety margin by doing so.