Originally Posted by CBreezy

I don't think we give management enough credit. I'd like to give a special thank you to the NYC CPO for demonstrating the STAGGERING level of sick leave abuse by the pilot group in February, primarily due to the grievance settlement ending lookback. In their March Newsletter, they presented a compelling case of abuse. According to their numbers, sick usage was significantly increased as compared to February 2025.

In February of 26, in the 220, 320 and 737 fleets, there was a 0.4%, 0.5%, and a stunning 0.9% increase in sick occurrences. This represents an additional 1.5, 1.9. and 2.6 pilots calling out sick in February out of the 395, 391, 297 pilots currently assigned Guys, if you can't see that SIX extra pilots calling out sick out of 1083 pilots is CLEARLY abuse I don't know what else to tell you. I mean, if the average pilot has 4 trips a month, and there is an increase of 6 sick calls in the month, how is Delta supposed to make money with an additional 0.13% of trips going uncovered?

Don't bother looking at the statistics that this could be the worst flu season in 25 years. That's irrelevant.