• Trip Cancellations
• Accessing Wings

• AFA Local Numbers

Trip Cancellations

Winter Weather Hits East Coast - May Trigger Pay Protection

Due to the severe weather that continues to hit the East Coast, many of you may experience flight cancellations, crew substitutions, and illegalities. If your trip is canceled prior to your report, you are not obligated to make up the time.

Keep in mind that our Working Agreement provides pay protection for many of these situations which you would need to submit a claim for the loss time. Additionally, many of you may qualify for pay protection under "last trip of the month". Or your last series of trips, crew substitution, etc.

Please review your Contract, Section 9-21, 9-23, 9-24, 9-26.3 and Section 10-12 for more information.

Duty Time Limitations

It is imperative that you know at least the basics of your working agreement. When you are on a trip, you should not rely on schedulers, pilots or the union to calculate for you your duty time limitations. You should calculate this yourself. If you can't, please, learn how. If you need to check your legalities or believe you may be illegal for your next trip, call daily or midnight scheduling and ask them to run a legality check on you.

International Cancellations

If you are called by scheduling and notified that your flight to an international destination is cancelled, you are pay-protected for the value of that trip because you can't split back on and there is always a crew in Europe that will now have to work your originally scheduled flight back. Wait until the trip is completed and file a claim. If you are a reserve and the international trip was an ETB trip, you are pay protected for the value of your trip above your guarantee. If the trip is not an ETB trip, you are pay protected up to the point that scheduling utilizes you, if they do. If you are a block holder, don't go back on the bid sheet or you will reduce, or possibly eliminate, your claim. There is no 'double-dipping.' If you are a block holder and you are in Europe, if the cancellation causes you to miss your next trip or trips, you are pay protected for the 'originally scheduled value' of that trip or trips. If you are in Europe and you don't have a trip for the next day but you are on the bid sheet and you have been processed (awarded a trip), you will be pay protected for that trip. If you have not been processed (not awarded a trip), there is no pay protection because you have no trip and the company is not going to award you a trip they know you can't originate.

If you have questions about your contractual rights, please contact your local union office.

Buddy Brannon, Vice-President
The US Airways Master Executive Council
AFA-CWA

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

AFA US Airways Website

www.afausairways.org

Accessing Wings:

https://wings.usairways.com
Questions about WINGS? Please contact the EDS Help Desk at (480) 693-6029 for assistance. More information can also be found HERE.

AFA Local Numbers
 
Council 41 DCA 703-212-8090
Council 69 BOS 781-289-8454
Council 70 PHL 215-492-0840
Council 82 LGA 315-736-3483
Council 89 CLT 704-527-0325

New Hotline Number Toll Free: 866-USA-AFA2
US AIRWAYS Benefits Information 800-872-4780

Reply to Inflight: askinflight@usairways.com

Got Questions? Get Answers

The *E-Line* is now in a new and improved format. By updating your profile at unionvoice.org you will be able to enjoy improved services in the near future! Visit your subscription management page at: http://www.unionvoice.org/

Got questions about This *E-Line* from AFA - US Airways or any other Union matter? Do NOT REPLY to the *E-Line*. PLEASE contact your local AFA officers or committee chairs directly: http://www.afausairways.org/emailaddresses2.htm

Your MEC Officers
Association of Flight Attendants
Hotline & *E-Line* - US Airways