Originally Posted by
dmhpilot
Cool, but not exactly what it says. I could see the same company that considers sick use abuse of our contract to also say something like “you should know better” since the language says:
“An APD request will be granted if, at the time of processing…pilot has not been granted an APD since the first day of the bid period containing the last anniversary of their date of hire.”
The company is the party that grants APD requests, not the pilot.
Even if the wording meant what you think (it doesn’t), the company would be violating the contract, not the pilot. We would be able to locate affected pilots who were improperly denied PDs, solely because the company improperly granted too many APDs.
Sick abuse is a completely different animal. The sick / well declaration is made by the pilot, not the company.