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CBS Messages - Vacation

2005 February through April Vacation Drop Bid Now Open

DROPS IN SENIORITY ORDER CBS...

As part of the 2004 AFA-US Airways Agreement, the amount of vacation you will be able to utilize in the year 2005 will be reduced. If you would like to verify what your total vacation amount will be for 2005, you may find that information on theHub. Go to the Inflight Home page and select the link for the 2005 Drop Bid. This total includes all accrual, carry forward, filler and excess days that you be able to use for the 2005 year. Any vacation days that are not available for use in 2005 will be available for use in future years. You are not loosing any vacation days, but are being limited to the amount of vacation you may use in 2005.

Flight attendants who have vacation scheduled from February through April may submit a request to drop that vacation and use it as part of a Vacation Rebid which will be announced in the near future.

This Drop Bid period will open immediately and close at 1800 EST on January 27, 2005. The bid results will be posted in CATS by 2359 on January 30th. The form for this bid may be found on the Inflight Services Home Page on theHub. Please read the directions carefully.

You may submit drop bid requests for any vacation scheduled in Feb, Mar., or April. Requests for any vacation outside these months will NOT be honored. Bid groups on the form will be process individually and are NOT alternate bids. The requests will be processed in Seniority order and will be based on availability of the dates to be dropped. If your drop request is honored, any trips that were dropped due to that vacation will NOT be reinstated into your line of flying. Your obligation however will remain unchanged.

Again, once the process is complete, you will need to check CATCREW option #15 to see if your Drop Bids were able to be honored.

Please submit your form on theHub as early as possible as late bid request will NOT be honored.

Thank you.
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TheHub form for drops in seniority order...

2005 February through April Vacation Drop Bid

Please read the following VERY carefully.

Please bid to drop only vacation scheduled for February, March, or April. Any vacation drops requests outside of those months will not be processed.

All bid groups below will be processed individually (they are NOT alternate bids.)

Bid requests will be considered in Seniority order and based on availability of the day(s) to be dropped.

If you drop vacation during this process, trips in your line dropped by vacation will NOT be reinstated. Your monthly obligation will remain unchanged.

Only vacation scheduled between February and April will be considered in this bid. Vacation from May through December (as well as any unscheduled vacation) will be processed in a separate bid (future date to be announced.)

Please check CATCREW option #15 for bid results after 0001 EST on January 31,
2005.

Employee # _________ First Name _____________ Last Name ____________ Base ________

I want to GIVE UP the following vacation:

Employee # _________ First Name __________________Last Name _____________________Base ________

I want to GIVE UP the following vacation:

Total Number of Vacation days I want to be given up : _______

#1) Dates: _______to _______Number of days to be given up in this bid: _____ Range down to: ______

#2) Dates: _______to _______Number of days to be given up in this bid: _____ Range down to: ______

#3) Dates: _______to _______Number of days to be given up in this bid: _____ Range down to: ______

#4) Dates: _______to _______Number of days to be given up in this bid: _____ Range down to: ______

#5) Dates: _______to _______Number of days to be given up in this bid: _____ Range down to: ______

#6) Dates: _______to _______Number of days to be given up in this bid: _____ Range down to: ______

****NOTE*** Late bids will NOT be accepted.

DROPS FOR EXCESS DAYS CBS - SENT TO ONLY THOSE IDENTIFIED AS EXCESS (241)

EmpNo xxxxx
Name xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Excess days to be dropped: xxx

The 2005 Vacation awarded to you in the Annual Vacation award for January through April exceeds your total annual vacation accrual amount under the new Flight Attendant agreement. This excess number is displayed at the beginning of this message. You need to reduce your vacation by the amount shown above by calling or faxing a request to Inflight Admin Vacation group no later than noon on January 27, 2005. If you have not contacted Inflight Vacations by noon on the 27th, your vacation will be deleted by the Inflight Vacations group.

You may call Inflight Vacations at 1-800-327-0117, prompts 1,5,4,2,2 or send a fax request to 1-703-872-6476. Calls will be taken between the hours of 8:30 AM to 5 PM, Monday through Friday. If you chose to fax your request, your fax MUST contain your Name, Emp number, base, and date(s) to be given up (vacation scheduled from Feb through April only - NO January vacation will be dropped.)

The total days to be given up must match the number specified above in the Excess days to be dropped. If you desire to drop days other than those in Excess, please reference the 2005 Drop Bid CBS message. Excess days will be dropped immediately while the 2005 Drop Bid will be processed in Seniority order. It will be your responsibility to check CATCREW option #15 after Jan. 27th to verify that the vacation has been dropped.

Please do not wait until the last minute to call or fax as the lines will be busy. Automatic cancellation will begin immediately upon closure of the bid.

Thank you.

Timothy Gunsteens
Manager - Inflight Technical Services
US Airways

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