June 15, 2005

When a reserve who has an ETB trip on an OFF, INV or VAC day is first contacted and all trips offered by Crew Scheduling conflict with such OFF, INV or VAC day, he/she will have the same options available to him/her as if he/she did not have such ETB trip (except he/she can not create a conflict with an ETB trip) and he/she was being contacted on AVL days in advance of an INV day and coverage is adequate. (This would be in the "1st Step, Overlap Conflict Due to OFF/INV/VAC ETB Trip on the chart below.) Those options are:

If the only available trips at the time the reserve is contacted conflict with inviolable days and coverage is adequate, the Company will offer the following options to the reserve in the order listed. If the reserve declines to select from the options offered, the Company will required the reserve to remain on call.

• Release early into days off with Company consent; 
• Remain on call with Company consent; 
• Select a trip to split in domicile or in a domicile in the same time zone in the continental United States as the reserve's domicile, or, 
• Select a trip to split at any station.

What this means is that the Company will treat all reserves who have ETB trips on OFF, INV, or VAC days in the same manner when the Company "goes down the LTO list" the first time each day. All such reserves will be treated as if the conflict is due to an INV day.

EXAMPLE: 4-day open trip originating on 6/1

1st STEP:

2ND STEP (inadequate staffing):

3rd STEP:

4th STEP:

5th STEP:

6th STEP:

7th STEP:

8th STEP:

EXAMPLE: 4-day open trip originating on 6/1

• Give up all or a portion of the non-inviolable days off to complete the trip in which case such days will not be restored; 
• Release early into non-inviolable days with Company consent; 
• Remain on call with Company consent; 
• Select a trip to split in domicile; 
• If no trips are available that can be split in domicile, then with Company consent, select a trip to split in a domicile that operates in the same time zone as the reserve's domicile in the continental United States, or,
• If no trip is available that can be split in a domicile that operates in the same time zone as the reserve's domicile in the continental United States, then with Company consent select a trip to split in any station in the continental United States or Canada. 

If the only trips available at the time the reserve is contacted conflict with non-inviolable days off and reserve coverage is inadequate, the Company may require the reserve to fly into such off days. If this occurs, the Company must restore those non-inviolable days as follows: 

• Days will be moved to the end of the affected period or if not practicable, moved to another period of off days in the same month; 
• With mutual consent, move such off days to create an additional period of off days within the same month provided that such additional period of off days is not adjacent to an existing period of off days; 
• With the reserve flight attendant's consent, move the non-inviolable off days to another period of off days in the subsequent calendar month. 

Implementation Committee And MEC