• FEBRUARY 08 PRIMARY LINES OF FLYING
• JANUARY RESERVE LINE CLOSING, ETB AND NFL DATE ADJUSTMENTS

• Accessing The Hub

• AFA Local Numbers

February 2008 Primary Lines of Flying: The Director of Crew Scheduling, Mike Finn set the maximums in ALL bases at 90 hrs of Company time for the month of February. The blocking objective was a flight attendant window of 75-90 hrs. 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:

CLT    A319               75-90               PHL    A319               75-90               PHL    76M                 70-85

CLT    733                  75-90               PHL    733                  75-90               PIT      733                  70-85

CLT    76 D                75-90               PHL    E90                  70-85               PIT      21M                 N/A

CLT    21M                70-85               PHL    FAI (INT)       70-85               PIT      A319               75-90

CLT    33F   (INT)      80-95               PHL    33F (INT)        70-85               DCA    733               75-90

CLT    76M                 N/A                  PHL    FAD                70-85              DCA    A319               75-90

CLT    FLS  (LODO)  70-85               PHL    21M                 70-85               LGA    A319               80-95

CLT    32J   (LODO) 70-85               PHL    32J (LODO     70-85               LGA    21M                 N/A

BOS     A319             80-95             PHL    FLS (LODO)    70-85 

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 make no changes to such line.

February SAP: Group 1 (PIT, PHL, and BOS) opens Dec. 23rd at 1800 and closes Dec. 29th at 1800.  Group 2 (CLT, DCA, and LGA) opens Dec. 23rd at 1800 and closes Dec.30th 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.

Secondary Lines for February: The Construction Blocking minimum will be 70 hrs.  The minimum has been lowered to 70 hours to help create more lines.  The Secondary lines will open Jan. 8th at 1800 and close Jan. 13th 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 Jan. 15^th  and closes  Jan. 22^nd or he/she may use the AIL.

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

February IT Lines With Line Lead-in Pairings – PHL Only:  Look at 33F Line 2918 (MAN) you will see pairing 96012 carrying-over (transitioning) from the January bid month into the February.  Such pairing is owned by the originating crew in the January bid month; however, duty period 2 of pairing 96012 is also placed in February’s line 2918 as “artificial time” to create a legal line. Remember, line 2918 has a published value of 75+00 but when the “artificial block time” of 8+05 (dp2 of 96012) is subtracted the recalculated value of the line will be 66+55.

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 66+55 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) to increase his/her flying time.  Any time SAP is utilized the increased post SAP line value would be his/her new obligation for February.

Additionally, the AIL may be used to increase the flying time up to a maximum 90 hrs of Company.  However, in the case of using the AIL this action increases your flying time (projection) but does not adjusted the obligation of 66+55.

Other IT lines with a line lead-in are FAI lines 5303 and 5304.  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 Contract applies.  Further, 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.

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JANUARY RESERVE LINE CLOSING, ETB AND NFL DATE ADJUSTMENTS

Due to the fact the closing date on the printed version of the January Reserve lines contained an error the lines will now close on December 22 as published. The Inflight monthly calendar on the hub contained the correct date (December 20th), but the hub is not the primary method of notification.

The January Reserve Line Closing date is DECEMBER 22 at 1800.

As a result the opening date of the ETB will also be changed.

The January ETB OPENING date will be DECEMBER 23 at 1800.

As a result of those changes January NFL day awards will begin on December 24.

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Thank you,

Mike Flores, President
The US Airways Master Executive Council
AFA-CWA

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