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October 2007 - Primary Lines of Flying: The Director of Crew Scheduling, Mike Finn set the maximums in ALL bases at 90 hrs of Company time. The blocking objective was a flight attendant window of 75-90 hrs. However, the way the pilot lines are built (separately constructed by aircraft type) some lines were beneath the minimum window and some over. AFA agreed to publish such lines to give more flight attendants primary blocks. The pilot's scheduling committee and the computer built the primary lines as follows:

Lines Less 75: Flight attendants awarded a line for less than 75:00 can come in with such value. Or, 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. When SAP is utilized the increased post SAP line value would be his/her new obligation including vacation time.

Lines Over 90: Flight attendants awarded lines over 90 can come in with between 85 - 90 hrs, not to include ETB time. Such affected flight attendants may call Crew Scheduling and drop a trip to downward project his/her block or drop via SAP. Further, the AIL may be used to get to between 85-90 hrs. On a non precedent-setting basis an over-fly letter will not apply to a flight attendant that flies his/her awarded line which exceeds 90 hrs if he/she makes no changes to such line.

October SAP: Group 1 (PIT, PHL, & BOS) opens August 25th at 1800 and closes August 31st at 1800. Group 2 (CLT, DCA, & LGA) opens August 25th at 1800 and closes September 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 shown above.

Secondary Lines for October: The Construction Blocking Minimum will be 70 hours. The minimum has been lower to 70 hours to help create more secondary lines. The Secondary lines will open September 07th at 1800 and close on September 12th at 1800. Any Secondary lineholder that wishes more Company time (to a max of 90) may use the Secondary Line Augmentation process which opens on September 14th at 0700 and closes September 22nd at 1800 or he/she may use the AIL.

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

October IT Lines With Line Lead-in Pairings - PHL Only: Look at 33F Line 2901 published value of 73+00. You will see pairing 96003 carrying-over from the September bid month into the October bid month. Such pairing is owned by the originating crew in the September bid month; however, duty period 2 of pairing 96003 is also placed in line 2901 for October as "artificial time" to create a legal line. Remember, line 2901 has a published value of 73+00 but when the "artificial block time" of 9+40 (dp2 of 96003) is subtracted the recalculated value of the line will be 63+20.

The flight attendants that are awarded such a line may come in with the published time less the "artificial block time". In this example, the recalculated value of 63+20 will be entered as an adjusted obligation in CATS. Or, the affected flight attendants could SAP upward (max 90 hrs) of Company time (including vacation time) to increase his/her flying time. Any time SAP is utilized, the increased post SAP line value (including vacation time) would be his/her new obligation for that bid month.

Thank you,

Carol Austin
MEC Scheduling Chair
CAustin@afausairways.org

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