Originally Posted by
John Carr
Previous job in the dark decade;
We'd all been there long enough to have 3 weeks vacation with line bidding, so effectively, 17+ days off a month with a vacation "week". Sick call rules basically granted a pilot 2 four day trips without requiring a Dr's note. Do the math, every other month and one gets over half the month off with NO QUESTIONS ASKED.
Was funny, looking at the bid pack for sickation conflict, just like vacation conflict.
Nope, get sick at an outstation or commute, ya gotta get home somehow. Almost 3 decades of doing this, 20+ with CASS/15+ with KCM, NEVER heard a word about JS'ing/NR'ing to get home on a sick call.
Now, calling in sick, THEN NR'ing/JS'ing to a leisure/vacation is a TOTALLY different ball game, IF they check.
Sounds like AA sucks.......
Before AA I was at Spirit. Both company(s) were/are great. AA they dont mess with you really, unless its obvious you're abusing it.
The non-rev scenario; basically they say if you are to sick to operate, you're too sick to deadhead. But if you're banging out to not work? You probably wouldn't do it mid trip anyway. If I'm calling out mid trip, it's probably because I have the flu and can barely get out of the hotel bed. In which case, I'll ask them to extend my room...