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August 2010 Primaries: The Manager-Flight Attendant Scheduling, John Petronzi set the MAX in ALL bases at 90 hrs of Company time.  Pilot lines are built by aircraft type.  Some lines were beneath the 75 and some over 90.  Lines Less 75: If awarded a line of less than 75:00 you can come in with such value or use the AIL.  Additionally, you can SAP upward; however, your increased post SAP line value would be your new obligation including vacation time.  Lines Over 90: You can come in with between 85 - 90 hrs, not to include ETB time.  Drops can be via a call to Crew Scheduling or SAP. Note: An over-fly letter will not apply to anyone who flies his/her awarded line which exceeds 90 hrs (created by the pilot scheduling committee) if he/she make no changes to such line per an Agreement with the Company. This arrangement does not include over-projection from vacation time and/or carryover time whereby the addition of such time creates a total value that exceeds 90. See page 9-5 starting on line 37 of the Contract.

August NON-LODO Positions Variance: The Pilot Permanent bid for August is the same as July. The pilot scheduling committee builds the number of lines required by their permanent bid (F/A’s also bid these lines).  Next the remaining “FAD-FAI-33F” open time” (left by the pilot scheduling committee) is made into “additional lines” that apply only to F/A’s.  Additionally, the Crew Planners (in PHX) create extra flight attendant pairings (21M).  The placement of the 21M  pairings is at Company discretion and based on staffing alignment. Once the 21M solution is completed such lines are added to the Pilot Permanent Bid figures and additional lines that apply only to flight attendants. The information shown below is compared to the NON-LODO bidding positions for July 2010.

Note: It is Kathi Dege’s – Manager Crew Planning & Analysis - decision to send the vast majority of the 21M flying to PHL for staffing alignment. Additionally, it was the Marketing Department that discontinued nonstop from CLT to HNL.  At this time, HNL as a destination for the CLT base will return as a 4 day pairing in September.  However it will not be a nonstop (CLT to HNL) but an RON in PHX before and after the flight PHX–HNL-PHX.  

Noteworthy Information-September Pilot Permanent Bid: The following gives you an idea of how your base is scheduled to change in September.  CLT increases by 75 positions.  PHL increases by 28 positions. DCA will have No Change.   However,   what is not known at this time is how much 21M time will be directed to each base and what affect on the total Primary lineholder numbers that decision will create.  

SAP: Group 1-PHL opens June 24th at 1800 and closes June 30^th 1800.  Group 2 (CLT, DCA) opens June 24th at 1800 and closes July 1st at 1800.  The SAP non-high option window is MAX of 90 and MIN of 60.  The SAP window has been expanded beyond the Contract provisions to allow for the extra blocking windows.  August SAP has no protected holidays so there are no restrictions except for the min-max windows, legalities, etc.

In a previous memo it was explained that SAP is not correctly seeing the TRN code as a day of work. Therefore, some flight attendants have received SAP awards that were illegal when CATCREW did its legality check.   Some additional illegalities have surfaced with regard to the end of the month (transition) and 24/7.  Therefore, when you try to sign in for an award and a legality flag surfaces ensure that you call Crew Support Services if SAP is involved to ensure that pay protection applies. When pay protection applies an explanation should be in the Remarks Section of your Schedule so that Pay Claims can quickly process your claim form. Additionally, call your LEC Union officers in DCA, CLT or PHL so that the MEC is alerted to your situation. 

Secondary Lines: The lines open July 7th at 1800 and close July 12^th at 1800.  Any Secondary lineholder that wishes more Company time (to a max of 90) may use the Augmentation process from July14^th to July 21st or use the AIL.  When augmentation is utilized the increased post augmentation value is the new obligation including vacation time.   

Many flight attendants have asked why the number of Secondary line change from month to month. The formula utilized for all bases is shown below:

1) Take Base AVL Headcount multiply by 15.5% (Res. Factor) = Required Reserves by Manager F/A Scheduling   

2) Take Base AVL Headcount and subtract all Primary Lineholders = AVL Headcount after Primaries

3) Take AVL Headcount after Primaries minus Required Reserves = Max. Amount of Secondary Lineholders

Reserves: The maximum for the bid month will be 90 hrs; therefore, a reserve may call out of time at 85:01.

Thank you,

Carol Austin
MEC Scheduling Chair
CAustin@afausairways.org
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Council 70 PHL 215-492-0840
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