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May 2009 Primary Lines: For the month of May, the Manager-Flight Attendant Scheduling, John Petronzi set the maximums in ALL bases at 90 hrs of Company time.  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:                       

Lines Less 75: Flight attendants awarded a line for less than 75:00 can come in with such value or use the AIL.  Additionally, 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.  However, 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.

May SAP: Group 1 (PHL and BOS) opens March 24^th at 1800 and closes March 30^th 1800.  Group 2 (CLT, DCA LGA) opens March 24^th at 1800 and closes March 31st 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 May: The Construction Blocking minimum will be 70 hrs.  The minimum has been lower to 70 hours to help create more lines.  The Secondary lines will open April 7^th at 1800 and close April 12^th 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 April 14^th  and closes April 21st or he/she may use the AIL. 

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

May IT Lines with Line Lead-in Pairings – PHL and CLT:  Look at PHL 33F Line 2916 (FRA) you will see pairing 92005 carrying-over (transitioning) from the April bid month into May.  Such pairing is owned by the originating crew in the April bid month; however, duty period 2 of pairing 92005 is also placed in May’s line 2916 as “artificial time” to create a legal line. Line 2916 has a published value of 75+00 but when the “artificial block time” of 8+40 (dp2 of 92005) is subtracted the recalculated value of the line will be 66+20.

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+20 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 May.

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+20.  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 CBA applies. 

Note: Other IT lines with a line lead-in are PHL33F lines 2917, 2926 and FAI lines 5306, 5308, 5322, 5325, 5327, 5329, 5346, 5347, 5348 and 5366. Additionally, if based in CLT, 33F line 5010 has a line lead-in trip.  Use the above methodology to determine the new obligation for the bid month. 

Carol Austin
MEC Scheduling Committee
CAustin@afausairways.org

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