MissM wrote:
Us being responsible for more lost days due to sickness could have something to do with that we cannot work, for instance when having a cold.
Several years ago, I was shown by the person who did cabin crew resourcing at Compass Centre a graph which recorded absenteeism throughout the year. The graph was fairly flat for most of the year, but there were spikes of absenteeism which just happened to coincide with major events like Easter, Wimbledon, Henley, Christmas.