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Subject: November Primary Lines of Flying

November Primary Lines of Flying: The Director of Crew Scheduling, Rob Fuhr set the maximums in ALL bases at 90 hours of Company time for the month of November. The blocking objective was a flight attendant window for November of 75-90 hours. The pilot's scheduling committee and the computer built the lines as follows:

CLT A319 75-90 CLT 733 75-90
CLT 76D 75-90 CLT 21M 70-85
CLT33F(INT)70-85 CLT FAD 70-85
CLTFLS(LODO)70-85 CLT32J(LODO) 70-85
CLT 76M N/C PHL A319 75-90
PHL 733 75-90 PHL 76D 75-90
PHLFAI(INT)70-85 PHL 33F (INT)70-85
PHLFAD 70-85 PHL 21M/ 70-85
PHL32J(LODO)70-85 PHL FLS(LODO)70-85
PHL76M 75-90 PIT 733 75-90
DCA733 75-90 DCA A319 70-85
LGAA319 75-90 LGA 21M 75-90
BOS A319 70-85
PIT 21M 70-85 PIT A319 70-85

Note: The way the pilot lines are built (by aircraft type and all separately constructed) some lines did not reach the proposed low end of the blocking window. AFA agreed to publish such lines in order to give more flight attendants primary blocks. Those affected flight attendants may come in with the published time in his/her line of flying (less than 75 hours) or SAP to increase his/her flying obligation. Example (1): A flight attendant receives a line worth 70 hours and does not participate in SAP; therefore, his/her line obligation for November is the published value of 70 hours. Or, if he/she participates in SAP but his/her post SAP value is less than 70 hours because he/she dropped a trip worth 10 hours, his/her November obligation would still be 70 hours. Example (2): A fight attendant receives a line worth 70 hours and participates in SAP, his/her post SAP line value is 85 hours. Per the Agreement, his/her obligation for November would be the "greater of the line value or the post SAP value". Therefore, the obligation for this flight attendant is 85 hours.

SAP: The timelines are: 
Group 1 (PIT, PHL, BOS) opens on 25th of Sep/1800 and closes on Oct 1st/1800, 
Group 2 (CLT, DCA, LGA) opens on 25th of Sep/1800 and closes on Oct 2nd /1800. 

Further, the non-high option window is the following: max of 90 and min of 60. The window was expanded to accommodate the variables in the November line building process. All other rules pertaining to SAP still apply.

November IT Lines With Line Lead-in Pairings -CLT Only: Line lead-in trips are added to IT lines in order to bring such lines up to the minimum. Line lead-ins are pairings at transition time (i.e. October into November) 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, with more continuity and some extra flexibility. CLT Example: Review November-IT Block 5016 and 5017. Pairing 12001 on Oct 30 and 31 leads-in from October into November and is owned by the originating crew. However, duty period 2 of such pairings (12001) is also placed in lines 5016 and 5017 in November as "dummy time" to create legal lines. Line 5016 and 5017 have a published value of 82+50 but when the "dummy time" of 9+50 is subtracted the recalculated value of the lines will be 73+00.

The flight attendants that are awarded such lines may come in with the published time less the "dummy time". The recalculated value of 73+00 would be entered an adjusted obligation in CATS. Or he/she could SAP up to 90 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 for November. Additionally, the AIL may be used to increase the flying time up to a maximum 90 hours of Company. However, in the case of using the AIL this action increases your flying time but not your monthly obligation of 73+00. Note: Whenever a line lead-in pairing (dummy time) spans a Saturday or/and Sunday you are NOT required to touch for a restricted weekend.

Thank you.

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