All Flight Attendants accrue 4.5 sick hours per month. You will no longer accrue sick hours, once you have reached 1,500 hours in your sick bank. You must be available* 15 days or more in a contractual month to be eligible to accrue Sick and Vacation. As an exception, if you are available for less than fifteen (15) days in a contractual month and you still reach 40 hours, you must contact the Flight Attendant Service Center (FASC) to accrue sick and vacation within 60 days of returning.

Sick accruals are calculated, added, and available in your sick bank on the 1st day of the contractual month. Within the month, days between 2 or more consecutive unpaid sick absences will be considered as unavailable if there is no paid activity between the absences. Those days are considered unavailable to the company for the purpose of sick and vacation accrual. FOS will "bridge" or "link" between all unpaid sick absences within the month.

If you run out of sick time in the originating month of a carryover trip, then the newly accrued sick in the next month will not apply to any portion of the trip. The newly accrued sick hours will apply to your first sick absence for a trip that originates in the new month. However, if you have enough sick time to apply to the carryover trip at least 1 min into the new month, then the accrued time will apply to the carryover trip.

Example: You have a carryover trip at the end of September, totaling 10 hours of pay. Five (5) hours on September 30th and 5 hours on October 1st. You have at least 5 hours remaining in your sick bank so your newly accrued hours will apply to the 5 hours on October 1.

* For the purposes of accruing sick hours, AVAILABLE is defined as days in which you generate any paid activity. (Vacation, Jury Duty, Sequence, Standby, paid sick, classroom training, etc.)