Electronic Trip Trade Board
(ETB) Window: Flight attendants may put trips from their primary lines, SAP awards or Trip Trades on the ETB for fellow flight attendants to pick-up on their days off or vacation days. However, per the Agreement the flight attendant dropping the time via the ETB is required to come in with at least 50+00 hours of Company time by the end of the bid period.
Governing rules:
1) The trip dropped/traded by flight attendant A via the ETB to flight attendant B will be worked by the Crew Scheduling Trade Desk if the trade is legal and timely.
2) Such trip drop/trade will be worked for flight attendant A until he/she reaches byway of drops/trades (via the ETB) the threshold of 50 hours or below hours of Company time.
3) Further, if flight attendant A is at 50+01 or above of Company time and the next drop/trade via the ETB would take him/her to not less than 40 hours such drop/trade will be worked.
4) If the flight attendants Company time is below 50 hours via the ETB, he/she is still responsible byway of the AIL to come-in with 50 hours.
Example Crew Scheduling Approves Drop to 40
Hours: Flight attendant A has 4 trips worth 20 hours each for a total of 80 hours in his/her line (Company time). Via the ETB, he/she wants to get rid of trips on the 9th and 16th. Immediately, the trip on the Monday the 16th is picked up by another flight attendant on his/her vacation days/days off. Now flight attendant A is at 60 hours and is obligated to that amount of time unless someone picks up his/her trip on the 9th. In this case, the trip on 9th worth 20 hours is picked-up via the ETB and the Crew Scheduler works the transaction leaving flight attendant A with 40 hours but a responsibility of 50 hours. The additional 10 hours that flight attendant A needs to reach 50 hours must be obtained from the AIL - not the ETB.
Example Crew Scheduling Does Not Allow Drop Past 50 Hours: Flight attendant A has 2 trips worth 20 hours each and 4 trips worth 10 hours each for a total of 80 hours in his/her line (Company time). Via the ETB, he/she wants to get rid of as many trips as he/she can. On the 9th and 16th he/she posts the 2 trips worth 20 hours each. On the 1st and 3rd he/she posts the 2 trips worth 10 hours each. Immediately, the trip on the Monday the 16th is picked up by another flight attendant on his/her days off/vacation days. Now flight attendant A is at 60 hours and is obligated to that amount of time unless someone picks up his/her trip on the 9th, or 1st or 3rd. In this case, the trip on 1st worth 10 hours is picked-up via the ETB and the Crew Scheduler works the transaction leaving flight attendant A with 50 hours. Even though, later on, another trip was picked up someone the Crew Scheduler would not approved such drop because flight attendant A had already hit the threshold of 50 hours.
Important Points About The ETB:
If you drop a trip via the ETB, that reduces your monthly flying obligation. For example, if a flight attendant with a line worth 90 hours drops a 20 hour trip to another flight attendant via the ETB, his/her flying obligation for the month decreases to 70 hours.
If you pick up a trip from another flight attendant using the ETB, that increases your flying obligation. Example: If the same flight attendant started the month with a line worth 90 hours and picked up an additional 20 hours via the ETB, his/her flying obligation would increase to 110 hours.
Reserve flight attendant who pick up trips via the ETB on days off/vacation days will be paid for such trips either over and above their reserve guarantee (if they do not break guarantee that month). Or, they will be paid over and above whatever time they flew on their scheduled reserve days of duty. Example: A reserve who only flew 60 hours during the month on his/her scheduled days of availability and flew a trip worth 15 hours on his/her days off/vacation days would be paid for 86 hours. If the same reserve flew 82 hours on his/her scheduled days of availability and flew a 15 hour trip on his/her off days/vacation days, he/she would be paid for 97 hours.
ETB Time Does Not Help If You Owe Company Time Because Of AIL Activity: The aspect of this that flight attendants need to understand is the difference in time picked up via the ETB and the AIL and how a flight attendant may not meet his/her obligation. Example, John starts his month with a line worth 90 hours. If John uses the AIL to give up a 20 hour trip and replace it with a 10 hour trip, John will owe the Company 10 hours at the end of that transaction. John cannot satisfy that 10 hours by picking up a trip from the ETB. In fact, if John does pick up a trip from the ETB worth 10 hours, he will still owe the Company 10 additional hours which would bring him to 100 hours for the month.
Another Example: Sally begins her month with a post-augmentation secondary line worth 82 hours. The monthly maximum in her base for the month is 90 hours. During the first week of the month, Sally picks up a trip worth 5 hours from the ETB. The next week, Sally uses the AIL and trip improves down from a 20 hour trip to a 5 hour trip. Sally's obligation to the Company is still 82 hours at this point, however, she owes the Company 15 hours because of her AIL activity. She cannot make up that time by picking up another trip/trips via the ETB. Doing so will increase her flying obligation, but will not satisfy the requirement that she pick up an additional 15 hours from the AIL.
No Split To Reach 50 Hours: Keep in mind that although the Company will allow you to go as low as 40 hours in some situations, your obligation will be no less than 50 hours. If you are at 40 hours due to ETB drops, you must come in with no less than 50 hours and such time must be picked up using the AIL. If you are at 40 hours and via the AIL cannot hold a 10 hour trip, the Company will NOT split a trip for you. Why? Because May's maximum is 90 hours - not 50 hours. If you are unable to get a trip worth 10 hours, you may have to fly a trip worth more time in order to meet the minimum of your obligation. If you fail to reach the minimum of 50 hours, you will be cited for low block.
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