Busboy

Not sure he would have been allowed to go commercially, with those injuries.

Jetjok

Are you seriously suggesting that you think it was the company's idea to send him home on the jumpseat? I've called sick in the field 2 times during my career at FedEx, and in both circumstances, flight management went out of their way to be as helpful as they could. And I should add that I wasn't even a Captain then. Perhaps you should find out all the facts before you spew this kind of crap.

JJ

MD11Fr8Dog

Having been stuck in a hospital in SFS for 4 days on an IV, I couldn't agree more! What did I get for my trip home, an email from my flight manager authorizing my Biz Class jumpseat to get back home.

⌐ AV8OR WANNABE

Something like "vive la surrender?" Just guessing...

PS. To clarify - I'm pokin' fun at the French not the captain who was attacked.

Any news on why he was 'jumped' and if the caught who ever did it?

CaptDan

Why was it in an email in the first place? It should be required reading, FCIF, not an email. Too many things are coming via email now. Is it a secret or for just those who actually read the company email.
The info should have been put our right away for those on layovers in Paris.

jagplt

It is amazing we are permitted to run this airline by notes... fcif's, e mails, notes....

Jetjok

I agree with you completely, but find it befuddling that the company only provided you a jumpseat, instead of an airline ticket home. That, especially in light of the following paragraph from our contract 14.B.4: Ill or Injured During a Trip
A pilot who becomes ill or injured away from base during a trip shall earn trip guarantee for the entire trip plus actual accumulated overage, if any. He shall be charged sick leave, commencing with the next showtime following his sick call, for the remaining value of his trip. A pilot who becomes ill or injured while away from his base on Company duty shall be provided with proper medical attention, including hospitalization, when required. The Company shall provide transportation, when the pilot is able to travel, back to his base, or at the pilot’s option, to his residence provided that the travel cost is limited to the travel cost of returning to base. A pilot whose placement on sick leave causes him to return to base later than scheduled shall not accrue additional CH for that late return.

I would assume that when the contract talks about travel cost, it assumes a commercial ticket, not a jumpseat. Does anyone see it differently?

JJ

frozenboxhauler

Hi JJ, how's it going? I hope the Company's "interpretation" of that section doesn't mean the cost of the extra fuel to carry him on the jumpseat.
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W0XOFF

It is PRETTY obvious that he wouldn't, considering that Stanley Ann Dunham, in the latter days of her pregnancy, was not allowed to board an airliner to return to Hawaii, causing her to give birth to her son in Kenya.

A pregnancy is such an uncertain thing, while major injuries like this are quite obvious.

Jetjok

If that's the case, assuming our injured Captain was told by the airlines, that he'd not be allowed to fly commercially, and FedEx, when asked, offered to get him home via jumpseat, thereby disregarding their own (and our) contract, wouldn't that be a good thing? Again, the issue here is that, as usual, we don't know all the particulars of the situation.

JJ