MacMan

This has never happened to me before, but I got sick (food poisoning?) on a SIBA pairing. How does this work sick leave, deviation bank-wise?

CargoCan

Happened to me about a month ago. Think it was the flu.

Once you call sick in the field your pairing stops at your next show time, i.e. you get paid for the trip until your next show time. The remaining credit hours are taken from your sick bank. The company is responsible to deadhead you back to Memphis or to your home as long as the ticket home is equal or less than the ticket to Memphis.

Its spelled out fairly clearly in the contract.

FX Bone Guy

The company actually takes out the entire trip from your sick bank, then credits back the portion of the trip that you did as make-up sick.
Same thing as was said... but just with some accounting tricks.
Deadhead shows up as "fake" - no "approved fare" but they'll pay it.

I got food poisoning out of Hawaii last year. Don't eat the fish.

CargoCan

Not in my case. They revised the pairing ending it at the start of the next duty period I was sick for and took the rest out of my sick account... not that it really matters... all works out the same.

fedupbusdriver

Same with me. I don't know how the dev bank is handled though.

MacMan

Thanks all. I wonder if the company will pick up the hotel room or whether this goes against the deviation bank...I'm in Paris and the rooms aren't cheap. I'm not sure what they base their accepted fare on. I wasn't scheduled to return from CDG.
I missed a call from my ACP on my cell. He (somehow) was aware of my predicament and asked if there was anything I needed. I appreciated that.

M²

fedupbusdriver

Have they rebuilt your trip yet?

Jetjok

I got food poisoning after eating at Crystal's in Memphis. By the time it struck, I was on layover in Pittsburgh. I had gotten so weak that the hotel had to have the paramedics take me to the hospital. Just before they knocked on the door, I had called crew scheduling and told them that I was sick and wouldn't be able to fly the inbound the next morning. They said "take care of yourself, and when you need to get home, to call them and they'd arrange transport for me."

A few years later, one of our first officers got sick in Shanghi, to the point that he needed to go to the hospital. He was there a day or two longer than his original trip was scheduled to lay over, and when he finally got out of hospital, spent another day or two at the hotel before he paxed home, all done on the Company's nickel. As for deviation bank, I'm not sure that after calling in sick-in-the-field, it even matters, as Corporate Travel will provide you with a ticket, regardless of its cost, and regardless of what the accepted city pair for that ticket might be. Of course that ticket is to get you back to your domicile.

MacMan

I just looked at my pairing and it ends last night when I called in sick. The AF is for the leg over only and pay is TAFB up to my sick call

fedupbusdriver

When you are ready to travel, they will build your pairing with the dh to memphis.