if you’re on reserve, you can call sick if needed, and you’ll get charged sick time only if you get called out

If you call in Sick on reserve and the company didn't use you on that day, you're not charged sick time. American is not the only airline that has this, btw.

So it is predesignated by the pilot as a preference before the call? As opposed to they call you and you say "I am sick"? Pretty awesome to have.

Wait, that's a thing? On the same airline that can extend your footprint into a day off? There's gotta be a catch.

Btw, what other airlines have this provision, cuz if true, that'd be pretty effing sweet for the "I rather do something else, but I didn't want to go back to college after .mil retirement" crowd. Or so I've heard :rolleyes::D

Yeah we don’t have that at Ual. We have the “sick if called” pilot initiated. Works pretty well I must say.

If you’re sitting reserve and you get sick, you simply call in sick if needed. At that point nothing happens. If they needed you, they’ll call and advise you of that, and that you’re being charged sick time. Basically it allows reserves to not burn sick time if they weren’t going to have to fly anyway.

And if you call in well the next day by a certain time, you only get charged one day of sick, not for the whole trip.

Until you get the rogue schedulers that just charge you sick and never call you. You don't find out about it until you look. All of this is courtesy of Alana and her practices when she was manager of pilot scheduling. And yes I mean a lower case "m" in manager.

I don’t know what you’re talking about. Ok though.

I prefer that my family and friends do not fly as passengers on AA. The crews have very low morale and their track record has not been too comforting. Saw plenty of reports and second hand stories.

A wise man once said believe half of what you see and none of what you hear.