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December 13, 2005

  • February Line Information
  • Accessing The Hub
  • AFA Local Numbers
Dear Members,

February Primary Lines of Flying: The Director of Crew Scheduling, Mike Finn set the maximums in ALL bases at 85 hours of Company time for the month of February. The blocking objective was a flight attendant window for February of 70 - 85 hours. The pilot's scheduling committee and the computer built the primary lines as follows:

CLT A319 75-90 PHL A319 70-85 PHL 76M 70-85
CLT 733 70-85 PHL 733 70-85 PIT 733 75-90
CLT 76 D 75-90 PHL 76D 70-85 PIT 21M 70-85
CLT 21M 70-85 PHL FAI (INT) 70-85 PIT A319 70-85
CLT 33F (INT) 70-85 PHL 33F (INT) 70-85 DCA 733 70-85
CLT FAD 70-85 PHL FAD 70-85 DCA A319 70-85
CLT FLS (LODO) 70-85 PHL 21M 70-85 LGA A319 75-90
CLT 32J (LODO) 70-85 PHL 32J (LODO) 70-85 LGA 21M 70-85
BOS A319 75-90 PHL FLS (LODO) 70-85

Note: The way the pilot lines are built (by aircraft type and all separately constructed) some lines exceeded the proposed high end of the blocking window. AFA agreed to publish such lines in order to give more flight attendants primary blocks. 

Flight attendants that receive a line which exceeds the maximum of 85 hours are obligated for February to come in with 80 to 85 hours of Company time, not to include Electronic Trade Board (ETB) time. As such, flight attendants awarded a line that exceeds 85 hours may call Crew Scheduling and drop a trip to downward project his/her block or drop via SAP. Further, the AIL may be utilized to eventually get to the aforementioned window of 80 to 85 hours. Flight attendants in CLT, PIT, LGA & BOS who received such a block are encouraged to drop time during the SAP window.

February SAP: The timelines are: Group 1 (PIT, PHL, and BOS) opens on December 24th at 1800 and closes on December 30th at 1800 - Group 2 (CLT, DCA, and LGA) opens on December 24th at 1800 and closes on December 31st at 1800. Further, the non-high option window is the following: max of 85 and min of 60.

Secondary Lines of Flying for February: The blocking objective will be a window of 70 - 85 hours. The secondary lines of flying will open on January 07th at 1800 and close on January 12th at 1800.

February Reserve Maximum: The reserve maximum for the February bid month will be 85 hours; therefore, a reserve may call out of time at 80:01.

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Accessing The Hub:

http://thehub.usairways.com 
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AFA Local Numbers

Council 40 PIT 724-695-3329
Council 41 DCA 703-212-8090
Council 69 BOS 781-289-8454
Council 70 PHL 215-492-0840
Council 82 LGA 315-736-3483
Council 89 CLT 704-527-0325

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