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September 12x, 2007
Dear Members,
  • November 2007 - Primary Lines of Flying

  • Accessing The Hub

  • AFA Local Numbers

November 2007 - Primary Lines of Flying: The Director of Crew Scheduling, Mike Finn set the maximums in ALL bases at 90 hrs of Company time. The blocking objective was a flight attendant window of 75-90 hrs. However, 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   80-95 CLT     FLS      70-85 LGA    21M     70-85 PHL     76D     80-95 PHL     32J     70-85
CLT     733      80-95 CLT     32J       70-85 PIT       A319   80-95 PHL     FAI      70-85 PHL     FLS     70-85
CLT     76 D    70-85 BOS     A319   80-95 PIT       733      75-90 PHL     33F      70-85 PHL     FAD    70-85
CLT     21M     70-85 DCA    733      80-95 PIT       21M     None PHL     E190    80-95  
CLT     33F      80-95 DCA    A319   80-95 PHL     A319   80-95 PHL     21M     70-85  
CLT    76M     None LGA    A319   75-90 PHL     733      80-95 PHL     76M     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 may SAP to increase his/her flying time for the month. The SAP non-high option window has a maximum of 90 hrs of Company time including vacation time.  Note: If 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 makes no changes to such line.

November SAP: Group 1 (PIT, PHL, & BOS) opens September 21st at 1800 and closes September 27th at 1800.  Group 2 (CLT, DCA, & LGA) opens September 21st at 1800 and closes September 28th 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 shown above. 

Secondary Lines for November: The Construction Blocking Minimum will be 70 hours.  The minimum has been lower to 70 hours to help create more secondary lines.  The Secondary lines will open October 07th at 1800 and close on October 12th 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 October 13th at 0700 and closes October 22nd  at 1800 or he/she may use the AIL.

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

November IT Lines With Line Lead-in Pairings – PHL Only: Look at FAI Line 5304 published value of 74+30. You will see pairing 54050 carrying-over from the October bid month into the November bid month.  Such pairing is owned by the originating crew in the October bid month; however, duty period 2 of pairing 54050 is also placed in line 5304 for November as “artificial time” to create a legal line. Remember, line 5304 has a published value of 74+30 but when the “artificial block time” of 8+50 (dp2 of 54050) is subtracted the recalculated value of the line will be 65+40.

The flight attendants that are awarded such a line may come in with the published time less the “artificial block time”.   In this example, the recalculated value of 65+40 will be entered as an adjusted obligation in CATS.  Or, the affected non-high option flight attendants could SAP upward (max 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 (including vacation time) would be his/her new obligation for that bid month.

Additionally, the AIL may be used to increase the flying time up to a maximum 90 hrs of Company.  In the case of using the AIL, this action increases your flying time (projection) but not the adjusted block (5304) obligation of 65+40.

PHL Note:  Also, look at other November Block which have line lead-in pairings like 33F line 2923. Then use the logic described above to determine the new obligation for the bid month.  Further, whenever a line lead-in pairing (artificial block 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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AFA Local Numbers

Council 40 PIT 412-245-1214
Council 41 DCA 703-212-8090
Council 69 BOS 781-289-8454
Council 70 PHL 215-492-0840
Council 82 LGA 315-736-3483
Council 89 CLT 704-527-0325

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