Members,

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO EXCEED 30/7

Per our 2004 agreement you now have the OPTION to exceed 35/7. Previous contractual language allowed a flight attendant to exceed 30/7 at his/her option up to 35/7. Effective March 2, 2005 a flight attendant now has the OPTION to exceed 35/7 so long as no other FAR is violated.

Several reserve flight attendants have reported they have been told by crew scheduling and Inflight supervisors that 30/7 and 35/7 “no longer exist” and they have to exceed 30/7 or 35/7. That is not the case. You can not be required to exceed either 30/7 or 35/7. Furthermore crew scheduling has told several reserve flight attendants that not taking a trip that would exceed 30/7 or 35/7 is a “refusal to fly”. You are NEVER required to take a trip that would force you to exceed 30/7. It is your OPTION to do so if you choose. Please report any such crew scheduling conversation to your Union representatives. Please note the schedulers name and time of the call. You should politely tell the scheduler you do not wish to exceed 30/7. As in the past you may at your OPTION still choose to exceed 30/7 and now you may choose to exceed 35/7 as well. Remember it is your contractual right not to do either.

As a reminder if you are leaving a list of trips with scheduling and DO NOT wish to exceed 30/7 or 35/ 7 you must ask the scheduler to note in the REMARKS SECTION of your bid that “you do not wish to exceed 30/7 or 35/7". Month to month transition trip combinations that exceed 30/ or 35/7 will remain in your block unless you inform crew scheduling that you do not wish to exceed 30/7 or 35/7.

Please refer to the examples below that are contained in the Guide to Implementation Provisions of the 2004 Flight Attendant Agreement.

Procedurally, the schedulers will assume that all flight attendant bidding and awarded a combination of trips at transition time that exceed 35 in 7 want the combination unless otherwise advised. Therefore, if you want to be removed from a combination that exceeds 30 in 7 or 35 in 7 you have that Contractual right but you must advised Scheduling.

Examples Exceeds 30 in 7/35 in 7 Combination:

Ex.1) A flight attendant has a scheduled trip on April 1, 2, & 3 for 16 hard hours and via AIL for March 29th, he/she is awarded a 3 day trip worth 15 hard hours. The trip combination equals 31 hard hours in 6 calendar days. Scheduling will keep the flight attendant on the combination of trips unless notified otherwise. Therefore if the flight attendant does not want the combination he/she MUST advise Scheduling to remove them from the trip originating on April 1 because of exceeding 30 in 7. Then ensure that you have been removed and record all appropriate data.

Ex.2) Another flight attendant has a scheduled 2 day Caribbean trip on April 2 &, 3 for 18+30 hard hours. Via AIL for March 30th, he/she bids and is awarded a 2 day Caribbean trip worth 18+30 hard hours. The trip combination equals 37 hard hours in 5 calendar days. The flight attendant will be kept on the combination unless he/she advises Scheduling otherwise. In this example, the flight attendant wants the combination so she/he does nothing but sign in properly.

Thank You,

Mike Flores
LEC President CLT
AFA-CWA AFL-CIO
704-527-0325 OFFICE
704-576-3174 CELL

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