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June 09 Primaries: The Manager-Flight Attendant Scheduling, John Petronzi set the MAX in ALL bases at 90 hrs of Company time. The objective was a flight attendant window of 75-90 hrs. The way the pilot lines are built, by aircraft type, some lines were beneath the minimum window.  AFA agreed to publish such lines.

Less 75: Flight attendants awarded a line for less than 75:00 can come in with such value or use the AIL.  Additionally, the affected flight attendants could SAP upward to 90 hrs of Company time (including vacation time) to increase his/her flying time for the month.  However, when SAP is utilized the increased post SAP line value would be his/her new obligation including vacation time.

Secondary Lines: The lines open May 7^th at 1800 and close May 12^th at 1800.  Any Secondary lineholder that wishes more Company time (to a max of 90) may use the Augmentation process from May 14^th  to May 21st or he/she use the AIL.  When augmentation is utilized the increased post augmentation value is the new obligation including vacation time.

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

June IT Lines With Line Lead-in Pairings – PHL:  Look at PHL FAI Line 5309 and you will see pairing 51034 carrying-over from the May bid month into June.  Such pairing is owned by the originating crew in the May bid month; however, duty period 2 of pairing 51034 is also placed in June’s line 5309 as “artificial time” to create a legal line. Line 5309 has a published value of 78+25 but when the “artificial block time” of 8+05 (dp2 of 51034) is subtracted the recalculated value of the line will be 70+20.

The flight attendants that are awarded this line may come in with the published time less the “artificial block time”.   In this example, the recalculated value of 70+20 will be entered as an adjusted obligation in CATS.  Or, the affected flight attendants could SAP upward to 90 hrs of Company time (including vacation time).  Any time SAP is utilized the increased post SAP line value would be his/her new obligation for June. Additionally, the AIL may be used to increase the flying time up to a maximum 90 hrs of Company time.  However, in the case of using the AIL this action increases your flying time (projection) but does not adjusted the obligation of 70+20.  Whenever a line lead-in is utilized to bring up the value of a line the provisions on page 9-28 line 24 of the CBA applies.  Note: Use the above methodology to determine the recalculated obligation for any other IT block when a line lead-in pairing is utilized.  Note: Weekend Touch – Line Lead-in Pairings: Whenever a line lead-in (artificial block time) spans a Saturday or/and Sunday such affected flight attendants are NOT required to “touch” for a restricted weekend.

SAP: Group 1 (PHL and BOS) opens April 24^th at 1800 and closes April 30^th 1800.  Group 2 (CLT, DCA LGA) opens April 24^th at 1800 and closes May 1st at 1800.  The SAP non-high option window is MAX of 90 and MIN of 60.  The SAP window has been expanded to allow for the oddity of the extra blocking windows.

SAP Process: The most often misunderstood process in SAP is the awarding of units out of numerical order and the affect this could have on the remaining units of the more junior flight attendant. Many are unaware that when a swap chain is being worked for a more senior flight attendant the junior flight attendants’ unit may be worked out of sequence.  Example: When the system pointer is on PHL #1, the system will first check to see if the ADD pairing is available in “Open Time” plus all other legalities.  After checking O/T, if it is determined that the desired ADD is not available the system will look for a swap chain to satisfy the bid.  See Page 40 of the SAP Manual.

Thank You

Carol Austin
MEC Scheduling Committee Chair
AFA-CWA

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