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May 2006 Primary Lines of Flying: The Director of Crew Scheduling, Mike Finn set the maximum in ALL bases at 85 hours of Company time for the month of May. The blocking objective was a flight attendant window for May of 70-85 hours; however, the pilot's scheduling committee and the computer built the primary lines as follows:

Note: The way the pilot lines are built (by aircraft type and all separately constructed) some lines exceeded the proposed high end of the flight attendant blocking window (85+00). AFA agreed to publish such lines in order to give more flight attendants primary blocks. 

Lines Exceeding 85+00: Flight attendants awarded a line that actually exceeds 85 hours can come in with between 80 - 85 hours for the month of May, not to include Electronic Trade Board (ETB) time. Such affected flight attendants may call Crew Scheduling and drop a trip to downward project his/her block or drop via SAP. Flight attendants that received such a block are encouraged to drop time during the SAP window. Further, the AIL may be utilized to eventually get to the aforementioned window of 80-85 hours. Additionally, 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 85 hours and he/she make no changes to such line. 

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

Secondary Lines of Flying for May: The blocking objective will be a window of 70-85 hours. The secondary lines of flying will open on April 7th at 1800 and close on April 12th at 1800. 

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

May IT Lines With Line Lead-in Pairings - PHL/ CLT Only: Line lead-in trips are added to IT lines in order to bring such lines up to the minimum or to make an additional line. Line lead-ins are pairings at transition time (i.e. April into May) that originate in one month and terminate in another. The practice of adding such pairings in IT lines has been on going for over 10 years and yields more lines of flying and some extra flexibility. Example of Practice: An IT Block published value of 83+20. Pairing 21006 on April 30th transitions from the April bid month into the May bid month and is owned by the April originating crew. However, duty period 2 of such pairing (21006) is also placed in a May IT line as "artificial time" to create a legal line. Such May IT line has a published value of 83+20 but when the "artificial time" of 8+50 (dp2 of pairing 21006) is subtracted the recalculated value of the line will be 74+30.

The flight attendants that are awarded such a line may come in with the published time less the "artificial time". In this case, the recalculated value of 74+30 will be entered as an adjusted obligation in CATS. Or, the affected flight attendants could SAP upward to 85 hours of Company time to increase his/her flying time in which case the increased post SAP line value would be his/her new obligation. Additionally, the AIL may be used to increase the flying time up to a maximum 85 hours of Company. Note: Using the AIL increases your flying time (projection) but not the adjusted obligation. 

Whenever a line lead-in pairing (artificial time) spans a Saturday or/and Sunday such affected flight attendants are NOT required to "touch" for a restricted weekend.

Thank You,
Carol Austin - MEC Scheduling Chair
caustin@afausairways.org

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