DCA A321 FO

There has been an unusually high number of PHX sick and fatigue calls.

Does anyone know what's going on?

Packrat

They're sick and tired.

Arado 234

Has something leaked?

PurpleTurtle

They are resting to prepare their next lawsuit. Lawsuits really drained it out of you.

viper548

Does PHX have any of those 2 leg redeyes?

eaglefly

If the spike in sick/fatigue is true among West pilots, I'm surprised it has taken this long to consider such a thing. If so, one could further the rumor that the company is behind the extension so as to have time to plan and mitigate the revelation of the SLI to minimize disruption at PHX. Of course, the same consideration could be hypothesized to do the same in the East or LAA, should the ax fall harder on those heads. Not sure if sick/fatigue has spiked in either of those segments. Of course, if true in the West, it could just be a staffing/Summer thing.

Regardless of the validity of this, the fact is, no matter what, there will be extremely sour grapes and one or more sides pilots are going to be VERY unhappy. Considering either the Nic will or will not be used in pure form, that almost assures that dynamic on the pre-merger LUS side as one side has to lose that battle considering the all-or-nothing polarization regarding it. If I were the company, I'd definitely want to kick the can as late into the Summer flying schedule as possible as October is a target date as we all know.

Ah, the things one ponders as we watch the clock tick away wondering what will happen on that fateful day.............

DCA A321 FO

That was the rumor by multiple sources.

I will not hold my breath though.

eaglefly

Multiple sources ?

Isn't it funny when rumors have multiple sources, no one can confirm a single source ? If the scorpion is out of the bag in the West, I doubt it involves enough detail to determine anything other then thumbs up or down regarding the Nic.

Sliceback

So the sick calls are in response to what? They did poorly in the SLI from their perspective?

Sixteen days +, sixteen days +, sixteen...

svergin

Or it was leaked that they did get the Nic as part of the SLI but then another party is delaying implementation with requests for extensions......