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Why dont you enlighten the rest of the world how much the Flight Attendants cost the company when they called in sick in record numbers over the holidays and forced the company to take many delays and Pay contractual understaffing pay on many if not all flights.
my guess is you will not admit to that and it never happened
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A77igw,
Quotes like yours convince me that AA could be headed to liquidation due to the incompetence and total lack of leadership from AA management. You have commented more than once on the sick use subject. A response is needed.
You're just a parrot A77igw, you just repeat whatever you hear from some manager walking by your SOC workspace. In fact out on the line, things were different. During the above mentioned period, 300 sailors went sick on the US aircraft carrier Roosevelt. Half the FA's on a US bound British Airways 747 flight checked into a hospital on arrival after getting sick. In some of my kids classes at school, only 1/4-1/2 were present. Some of the remaining pulled the projectile vomit move. I heard the same from others nationwide. What do we hear from AA? Employees are abusing sick leave. I, like alot of others,was sick on Christmas. I also wasn't scheduled to fly either.
You may think after calling a few seemingly healthy crewmembers, that most are playing some game. The fact is that even minor problems can escalate greatly during a days flying. In my case, I figure after 12 years, I have used enough sick days to equal 6 months of flying. This is with no serious health occurences. If I was doing your job during the same period, I would have been sick enough to keep me out of that $39.99 Office Depot chair you sit in for maybe 10 working days max. While D2-ing sometime, imagine, while on descent to DFW with crap weather, having one of the pilots almost totally deaf due to attempting to fly with a minor case of the sniffles. I've been there.
Cram everyone in SOC into one of those side offices, then cycle 300 people of varying health and cleaniless standards in and out for 9 hours and watch your sick use skyrocket.
