Originally Posted by
aterpster
Now, he can go about reading the help wanted ads back home.
He's probably going back on the line after coming down to the HIMS altar to confess his transgressions.
From the American Airlines HIMS Handbook:
American Airlines Group pilots have available to them the premier substance abuse agreement in the aviation industry. The goal is to protect the pilot’s career, regain the pilot’s medical certificate, and return the pilot to the cockpit.Time and again the HIMS program has proven effective, fair, and protective of a recovering pilot’s career. The individual airlines within American Airlines Group all have a process for making sure pilots with alcohol and/or drug abuse problems can maintain their careers. The companies encourage treatment, allows time to participate in treatment, and cover treatment under the provisions of the American Airlines Group medical plans when coordinated through the EAP.
Despite the myriad of conflicting issues that arise between the company and labor, the HIMS program remains above the fray. The EAP representatives for the unions and the company work collectively. Use HIMS to save your own life, or recommend it to a friend or co-worker. We have a terrific group of volunteers who are in recovery themselves, or have worked years in this program and are more than willing to assist you. Give us a chance to help. We are very proud of our record.
Admission into the American Airlines Group HIMS program is a privilege, not an entitlement. American AirlinesGroup will pay, by way of your insurance, 85% of the cost of your 28 day treatment. The out-of-pocket amount you pay may be even less if you use one of the facilities with which AAG Medical has negotiated the rates. AAG Medical Department will cover the cost of your psychological and psychiatric evaluation if you use one of the FAA qualified psychologists and psychiatrists with whom AAG Medical has negotiated reduced rates. AAG Medical will cover the costs of your continued monitoring, including follow up drug and alcohol testing. Your AME will be part of the AAG Medical Department and therefore cost you nothing. Your yearly flight physical, performed by your AAG AME, will be no cost to you. American Airline Group’s senior managers of Flight have looked beyond the surface expense and seen the advantage of this policy in improving flight safety and lowering overall costs to the company, and their support has been strong and enthusiastic. However, there are limits. Following discovery of a second undisclosed relapse, the Quad may ask you to pursue medical recertification with an Independent Medical Sponsor outside of AAG Medical, at your own cost.