SECTION 2 DEFINITIONS
A. "Available for the entire month" means the period of time a Flight Attendant is available for flight duty with the Company. Examples of when a Flight Attendant is unavailable for flight duty includes the time when a Flight Attendant is on furlough, suspension, medical leave, leave of absence, time off without pay, and military leave.
B. "Bidline" means the published lines of flying within a domicile over a specific bid period, which reflects the requirements of Section 11 of the Agreement.
C. "Block Hours" or "Block to Block" (Block in/Block out) means the period of time beginning when an aircraft first moves from the ramp blocks under its own power or under tow for the purpose of flight and ending when the aircraft comes to a stop at the ramp blocks, not to include time spent deadheading.
D. "Company" means Air Wisconsin Airlines Corporation.
E. "Credited Hours" means all hours an employee performs the duties of a Flight Attendant or is credited with a unit of time for pay purposes.
F. "Day Off" means a period of time from the hours of 0001 to 2400 based upon local time of a Flight Attendant's domicile that a Flight Attendant will be free from all required duty with the Company. Scheduled or unscheduled trips ending prior to 0200 local time will be considered as part of the day on which the trip originated.
G. "Deadheading" means the positioning of a Flight Attendant.
H. "Domicile" means a geographical location designated by the Company where Flight Attendants are based.
I. "Drafting" means anytime a Flight Attendant is assigned to a trip or portion thereof on a scheduled day off. Specific drafting policies as referenced in Section 11.K. apply.
J. “Duty Day/Duty Time” Duty Time means that period of time in which a Flight Attendant is on duty with the Company. Duty time will normally begin forty-five (45) minutes before scheduled trip departure and ends fifteen (15) minutes after block-in. Duty time will include deadheading and training . For purposes of deadheading duty time will begin thirty (30) minutes prior to scheduled departure. No duty rig is accrued for classroom training.
K. "Final Bid Award" means the Bidline adjusted for schedule integration, relief lines, and other adjustments provided in this Agreement. The Final Bid Award will denote the name of the Flight Attendant, the guaranteed days off, the scheduled days of flying (or in the case of reserves, days on call), and will indicate the total number of hours credited to the line of pay and time away from the domicile.
L. "Flight Attendant" as used in this Agreement shall include both male and female employees who are responsible for performing or assisting in the performance of all enroute cabin services, attending to passenger safety and comfort, and responsibility of the preparation and completion of reports as required by the Company and the law, who have completed training as prescribed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and whose names appear on the current Flight Attendant System Seniority List. A Flight Attendant may be assigned the responsibility for enplaning and deplaning passengers provided that such assignment will not be injurious to the Flight Attendant's health. The female gender when used herein shall also mean the male gender.
M. "Flight Pay" means payment based on a Flight Attendant's applicable hourly flight pay rate.
N. "Month" means a period from the first day to, and including, the last day of each calendar month of the year, except that for scheduling and pay purposes, January, February, and March will be considered a thirty (30) day month through the addition of January 31 and March 1 to the month of February; March will be a thirty-one (31) day month in a leap year.
O. "Relief Line" means a line constructed from flying not built into specific bidlines, and trips that have become available as a result of adjustment days, leaves, vacation, and other flying.
P. "Resequencing Pay" occurs whenever a Flight Attendant deviates from her scheduled trip two (2) hours prior to check in at her domicile or two (2) hours after check out at her domicile. Q. "Reserve Line" means a line consisting of guaranteed days off and days of availability.
R. "Rest Time" means that amount of time free from duty with the Company, including specified uninterrupted hours of rest.
S. "Trip Hour" or "Trip Time" means the amount of time away from her domicile, beginning at required reporting time and ending fifteen (15) minutes after arrival at domicile, or when released from duty by the Company, whichever is later, except in cases where the Flight Attendant requests and is granted release prior to returning to her domicile.
T. "Union" means the Association of Flight Attendants.
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