SECTION 11  SCHEDULING

A. Scheduling Policy

 1. A Flight Attendant Scheduling Committee shall be established by the Union at each domicile.  The committee will provide input into the construction of trips and bid lines each month.  The Scheduling Committee may review the open time and Relief Lines and Final Bid Awards.

 2. The Master Executive Council may request a meeting to make recommendations and discuss possible changes to the Scheduling Policy regarding the efficiency and manner in which trips are scheduled.
 
 3. The Company will provide the AFA Scheduling Committee Chairperson or her designee with the monthly bidlines and daily open time for posting on the AFA website (until such time that the Company is capable of posting such information on the web).

B. Bidline Construction

 1. Schedules for bidding purposes will be posted no earlier than the eighth of the month, but no later than the sixteenth (16th) of the month.  The exact date will be posted on the previous month’s bid.

 2. Bidlines may be constructed up to ninety-five (95) block hours.  However, the average bidline hours at each base will not exceed 88 block hours.

 3. Every reasonable effort shall be made to eliminate multiple aircraft changes on trip pairings.

 4. Reserve lines will be built to provide eleven (11) days off with a minimum of two (2) two-day periods and two (2) three-day periods off during the month.

 5. A flight attendant will not be scheduled for more than three hundred eighty  (380) trip hours in a month.

 6. Separate bid lines, except for relief lines, will be constructed for each aircraft type, except under extraordinary circumstances.

 7. A minimum of ten percent (10%) of the bid line at each domicile will be built with all weekends off.  However, if a schedule at a domicile necessitates less than this 10% level the Company and the Scheduling Committee will work out an accommodation.

C. Relief Lines

 1. Relief lines will be built in accordance with the policies set forth under standard bid line construction.

 2. Relief lines will be posted on the final bid award and will close no earlier than  noon two (2) days later.  Awards will be posted the same day.

D. Bidding Procedures

 1. All bidlines shall remain posted for at least four (4) twenty-four hour periods.

 2. The bid awards shall be posted within twenty-four (24) hours after the awards have been closed.  The final bid awards will be published within seventy-two (72) hours after closing.

 3. The Company will provide approved bid forms in the crew rooms at the domiciles.  Bidlines and trip pairings will be placed in each Flight Attendant’s mailbox.

 4. A list of all Flight Attendants anticipated to be on the schedule for any portion of the month will be posted or noted on the bid schedule.  Designation of any partial time off, confirmed at the time of posting, will be made in the same location.

 5. A Flight Attendant who bids on an approved form will place her bid in the prescribed location.  A Flight Attendant may elect to have another person bid for her, provided that the person bidding for the employee signs the bid form.  A Flight Attendant may call in her bid in accordance with Company procedures.

 6. A Flight Attendant failing to make a sufficient number of bids, failing to meet the deadline, or providing a bid form that is either unsigned or illegible, will be assigned the last remaining line at her domicile.  If more than one person fails to bid, they will be assigned remaining lines in numerical order based on her seniority.

 7. Flight Attendants will have forty-eight (48) hours from the time of posting of the final awards to dispute any award.  If a discrepancy is found to exist based on incorrect awarding of all bona fide bids, an adjustment will be made.  No adjustments will be made based on the employees failure to meet or comply with the guidelines of this section of the Agreement.

 8. If a Flight Attendant has been placed on temporary assignment outside of her regular domicile, Crew Scheduling will supply a copy of the bid sheet directly to the Flight Attendant(s) at the location of the temporary assignment.

 9. Copies of the original and final bid awards will be furnished to designated union representatives.

E. Open Flying

 1. The Company may designate up to ten (10%) percent of known and proposed flying as open flying at each domicile.

 2. The Company will post random charters in open flying.  In addition, the Company, as much as possible will place reoccurring charters in one line of flying, if unable to place into open flying.

 3. Open flying will be posted in the computer as soon as such flying is known.

 4. Initial open flying is all open flying remaining after the schedule integration and relief lines have been completed.

 5. Initial open flying must be posted for a minimum of four (4) days.  After four (4) days the open flying will be assigned to the senior most person requesting such assignment that does not create any requirement for additional coverage.

 6. After initial open flying is awarded, all open flying will be awarded on a first come, first serve basis.

 7. Open flying, once assigned will not be taken from the employee awarded the trip(s).  Additionally, once a trip has been awarded from open flying, this trip will not normally be considered as available to drop or trade.

 8. Open flying, either scheduled, or as a result of a request to drop, may be assigned by Crew Scheduling to any employee on a Time Available status, regardless of seniority.  Flying that becomes available as a result of additional flights, or requests to drop may be assigned directly to a Time Available employee without being posted in open flying.

 9. In months where training and/or Competency Checks are planned, the Company may utilize Open Flying for the specific purpose of scheduling such training.

F. Time Available Status

 1. A Flight Attendant will be considered on "time available" during any day on which she is scheduled to fly and her trip is canceled.

 2. Upon notification of being placed on time available status, Crew Scheduling will designate a four (4) hour period during every day on which the Flight Attendant was scheduled to fly.

 3. The Flight Attendant is subject to assignment on any trip, or portion of trip, which would return her to her domicile no more than three (3) hours later than the originally scheduled trip.

 4. A Flight Attendant who is placed on 'time available' status and does not fly will be credited for the scheduled time of the canceled trip.

 5. If a Flight Attendant requests to be released from 'time available' status and Crew Scheduling is able to comply with this request, she will forfeit her guarantee for that trip, and if she has reported for duty, be credited with reporting pay.

 6. A Flight Attendant who is required to remain on time available status will be paid the greater of actual time flown or scheduled for the canceled trip.

G. Scheduling Adjustments

 1. Trip Trades

  a. A Flight Attendant will be permitted to trade trips with another qualified employee with the approval of Crew Scheduling.  Approval will not be unreasonably withheld.

  b. A Flight Attendant awarded a trade which increases her line will have such time credited as part of her line guarantee.

  c. A Flight Attendant who requests a trade that decreases her line guarantee from the final bid award will have her guarantee adjusted downward to reflect the loss of time.

  d. Trip trades are not limited, provided that the total time involved will not project the Flight Attendant below fifty-five (55) credited hours.

  e. A Flight Attendant may not trip trade her entire line to another Flight Attendant.

 2. Trip Adds

  a. A Flight Attendant who adds time to her schedule by picking up trips from open flying will have the trip credited to her line guarantee.

  b. The adding of trips will be subject to the approval of Crew Scheduling, and will be based on guidelines involving duty days and monthly maximums, and will take into consideration the possibility of such guidelines being exceeded.

  c. Trip add requests in the last six (6) days of the current month shall be approved unless the final bid has been awarded and the trip add will cause a greater liability to the Company.  A Flight Attendant may at her option waive the provisions in Section 10F of the Agreement.

 3. Trip Drops

  a. A Flight Attendant who drops time from her schedule will have such time deducted from her line guarantee.  A flight attendant will not be permitted to request any time adjustment that would project her below fifty-five (55) credited hours.

  b. The dropping of trips will not be limited unless the trip drop will project the Flight Attendant below fifty-five (55) credited hours.

 4. A Flight Attendant may, at her option, waive the provision in Section 10.F., of the Agreement which requires one calendar day off at her domicile after six duty days in order to trade trips or add trips to her schedule, as long as she is scheduled for at least the minimum rest required in Section 10.E., of the Agreement.

 5. A Flight Attendant may request a scheduling adjustment during scheduling department business hours.  The request must be in written form and signed by the participants.  The trip will be awarded no later than twenty-four (24) hours after receipt, and sent to the domicile except if a Flight Attendant is picking up open time in accordance with Section 11 E (4).  A Flight Attendant may call for the award.

 6. Split Trips

  a) A Flight Attendant may split a trip for the purpose of picking up, dropping or trading a trip as long as there are no additional flight pay hours incurred to the Company. A Flight Attendant with a trip of two (2) days or fewer shall be allowed to split the trip once.  A Flight Attendant with a trip of three (3) days or more shall be allowed to split the trip up to two (2) times.

b) The minimum day guarantee does not apply when splitting trips.

c) A request to pick up a split trip must allow 60 minutes between flights before it will be approved.

H. Schedule Integration

 1. Adjustments may be made only during the first three (3) days of a month, and only on those days which the Flight Attendant was originally scheduled to fly.  Exceptions will be discussed with the LEC and permission to change this policy will not be unreasonably withheld.

 2. An overnight on the last day of the month will be indicated on the bidline, and will be flown by the Flight Attendant holding that trip on that month's bid award.

 3. An overnight trip which carries over from the prior month will be indicated on the bidline.

 4. No schedule adjustments shall be made in the current month that a Flight Attendant is working.
 

I. Reserves

 1. Reserves will not be assigned trips in seniority order.

 2. Reserves have two (2) hours to report for any trip assignment.

 3. A trip picked up on a scheduled day off will be added to her guarantee.

 4. Reserve Flight Attendants are protected under all provision of this Agreement, unless otherwise specified.

 5. A reserve may not be assigned a trip prior to twenty-four (24) hours before reporting time for the trip.

 6. Reserves may not be called out without a specific flight assignment.

 7. Crew scheduling will make efforts to balance reserve utilization.

 8. A reserve Flight Attendant not assigned for duty may be released by 1700 hours local domicile time on the last day of her reserve sequence subject to operational requirements.  In no case will any reserve on the last day of a reserve sequence be released later than the departure time of the last company flight leaving the domicile.

 9. Once a reserve Flight Attendant reports for a trip, she is subject to the same Company and F.A.R. guidelines as other Flight Attendants on the overnight.

 J. Assignment of Uncovered Trips

 1. When required in order to maintain the integrity of the schedule, a Flight Attendant will be called in the following order:

  a. A Flight Attendant on a time available status

  b. Flight Attendants who have indicated a desire to pick up open flying.

  c. Reserves on duty.
 
  d. Drafting

  e. If time does not permit, scheduling will use management to maintain on-time performance.

K. Drafting

 "Drafting" means any time a Flight Attendant is assigned to a trip or portion thereof on a scheduled day off.  After the above-mentioned procedure has been followed, Flight Attendants on her day off may be subject to drafting in the following order:

 1. a. The most junior Flight Attendant available at the domicile.

  b. The most junior Flight Attendant available at another domicile.

 2. a. A Flight Attendant will be paid under the provisions of Section 6.J.

  b. Scheduling personnel will identify themselves and declare that they are drafting.  It is unacceptable to ask a Flight Attendant if she "wants" a trip and then if the answer is "no" then declare drafting.  Flight Attendant will tell Scheduler if she wants time and a half or another day off at time of draft.

  c. Drafting must only be on day of trip unless it is an early morning departure (prior to 9:00 a.m.).  Then Scheduling may draft a Flight Attendant after 1800 (6:00 p.m.) the night before.

L. Resequencing

 1. Resequencing occurs whenever a Flight Attendant deviates from her scheduled trip(s).

 2. If such resequencing causes her to check-in or check-out at her domicile more than two (2) hours prior or two (2) hours after her scheduled times, she shall be paid under the provisions in Section 6.

 3. Time and a half shall be paid only for the additional block time prior to or after the two (2) hour windows.

 4. Once a Flight Attendant has been drafted she is not entitled to resequencing pay for that trip(s).

 5. A Flight Attendant may only be resequenced the day on which the trip operates.

M. A Flight Attendant may be released from the final deadhead and terminate her duty day at an out station by calling crew scheduling and requesting to be released prior to the last deadhead segment.

N. Continuous Duty Overnight

 1. When a duty period starts after 1700L and is scheduled for continuous duty over two calendar days, a flight attendant may be scheduled to a maximum of fourteen (14) hours on duty.  A stand-up overnight shall be defined as, “A duty period which begins after 1700L which extends over two calendar days and contains an intervening rest period.”

 2. A single room hotel will be provided for the intervening rest period.

 3. For the purpose of pay and credit the "stand up overnight" duty period will be calculated alone.  A minimum of six (6) hours pay and credit will be paid for each "stand up" duty period or the duty rig or actual credited flight time, whichever is greater.

 4. Any other trips in the calendar day will be paid in accordance with the Basic Agreement (the greater of minimum day, duty rig or flight time).

 5. A stand up overnight shall be defined as:  A duty period which begins after 1700L which extends over two (2) calendar days and contains an intervening rest period.