 | d. A Flight Attendant desiring to attend a required meeting and/or training, other than EPT drills, at another base may make such request through the Training Department. Such request will be considered no more than twenty-four (24) hours prior to the day of the required meeting and/or training. A Flight Attendant desiring to use an available EPT drills date from another base may request such change through the Training Department up to seventy-two (72) hours prior to the date of the desired EPT drills date. e. Training classes, except FAA training, will be scheduled for a minimum period of three (3) months. A Flight Attendant who does not attend a required meeting and/or training during this designated mandatory period will be scheduled for such required meeting and/or training during the make-up period, as applicable. Make-up classes will be offered no less than two (2) times during the make-up period. If the required meeting and/or training cannot be accomplished on an unscheduled day off during the make-up period, the Flight Attendant will be scheduled on a day s/he would otherwise have been on flight assignment or day of availability, and the Flight Attendant will be removed from his/her scheduled trip sequence or day of availability. If the failure to attend the required meeting and/or training during the designated mandatory meeting/training period was for circumstances beyond the Flight Attendant's control, including vacation, such removal will be fully paid and credited, in accordance with Article 8 of this Agreement. If the circumstances surrounding the Flight Attendant's failure to attend the required meeting and/or training during the designated mandatory meeting/training period are determined to be within the Flight Attendant's control, such removal from a scheduled trip or day of availability will be without flight time pay and flight time credit; however, the Flight Attendant's applicable monthly guarantee will not be reduced. | G. FLIGHT ATTENDANT RIGHT TO BID - TRANSFER A Flight Attendant transferring into a base may submit trip selections at the base prior to his/her arrival if s/he is to be available for service at the start of the schedule period involved allowing for base indoctrination and post-arrival rest period of forty-eight (48) hours off duty. H. DUPLICATION OF COVERAGE 1. If, as the result of an error, there is a duplication of regularly scheduled Flight Attendants on a given trip, the Flight Attendant(s) who does not fly such trip shall be paid and credited on a scheduled basis for such trip provided such Flight Attendant attempts to recover the time lost through make-up flying request. To qualify for this error protection, a Flight Attendant should make an effort to fly any trip for which s/he is legal and available which originates up to eight (8) hours after the scheduled termination time of the duplicated trip. 2. A Flight Attendant who declines the opportunity to make up a trip as provided in 1. above, shall forfeit trip error pay. 3. A Flight Attendant who successfully makes up a trip, but in so doing is paid and credited with less time than was contained in the original trip, shall be paid and credited with the difference between the trip flown and trip for which s/he was protected. 4. Pay protection is limited to the hours scheduled to be flown during the contractual month in which the trip was scheduled to originate. 5. The make-up obligation/make-up flying shall not extend beyond the contractual month in which the trip sequence was scheduled to originate.
I. SCHEDULE CONFLICT 1. Definition. Schedule Conflict: A schedule conflict is created when a Flight Attendant is awarded a trip selection, the first trip sequence of which is scheduled to depart prior to the termination of the last trip of the preceding month or when the first trip of the new month cannot legally be flown because of the legality requirements defined in Article 7 of this Agreement. In the event of a schedule conflict, the Flight Attendant must complete the last trip of the preceding month and must be removed from the first trip sequence of the new month. 2. Flight Attendant Options. In the event of a schedule conflict, a Flight Attendant may elect to eliminate the conflict as follows: 3. Automatic Removal. If, forty-eight (48) hours prior to the beginning of the contractual month, a Flight Attendant has not eliminated his/her schedule conflict, as provided in paragraph 2. above, the Company will automatically remove the schedule conflict trip sequence from the Flight Attendant's monthly activity record and Schedule Conflict Trip Drop the trip sequence into Open Time. Such Schedule Conflict Trip Drops shall not be credited and shall not be subject to the six (6) day monthly limitation described in Article 25.C.8.d. of this Agreement. 4. Obligation. A Flight Attendant whose schedule conflict has been eliminated in accordance with paragraphs 2. or 3. above shall have no further obligation to the Company. However, s/he may be subject to assignment under the provisions of paragraph 9.L. of this Article. 5. Access to Open Time 7. Notwithstanding the procedures above, any Flight Attendant is subject to assignment in accordance with the Order of Open Time, Article 9.L. J. OPEN TIME LISTS Make-up flying and Option II Lists will be maintained at each crew base. Their purpose is to record the names of all Flight Attendants who are interested in performing such flying, so that Crew Schedule may proffer to these Flight Attendants open flying which develops at the base. 2. Sick Make-Up. A Flight Attendant may request to fly sick leave make-up trips. Trips flown under this provision may not interfere with a Flight Attendant's regularly scheduled trips or reserve availability. A Flight Attendant desiring to perform sick make-up flying should place his/her name on the Sick Time Make-Up List, maintained at each base and indicate the days on which s/he desires such flying. A Flight Attendant proffered a sick time make-up trip is under no obligation to accept the assignment. Crew Schedule need make only one attempt to contact the Flight Attendant on the Sick Time Make-Up List. If no contact can be established, the trip may be proffered to the next name on the Sick Time Make-Up List or otherwise handled as open time. Sick leave accrual shall be restored to the extent of the number of hours flown. The number of hours that may be flown on sick leave make-up shall not exceed the number of hours used on paid sick leave since the time of original employment. Flight time credit earned shall not apply towards the monthly limitation. The opportunity to make up sick time will not be limited to the month(s) in which the sick instance occurred. K. ACCESS OPEN TIME - PRE-PLOTTING A Flight Attendant with AVBL days or a regularly scheduled Flight Attendant who has involuntarily lost flight time pay and credit shall, if eligible, be permitted to review the known open time which has been released by the Company at his/her base in the contractual month during which s/he has AVBL days or during which his/her flight time pay and credit was lost. Involuntary loss of flight time pay and credit as used in this paragraph K. shall include the following: cancellation, misconnect, illegality, schedule changes as provided herein, low bid line and schedule conflict. Such Flight Attendant may elect to obtain a trip sequence(s) from Open Time and add it to his/her monthly activity record ("pre-plot"). Flight time pay and credit for such pre-plotted trip sequence(s) shall not cause the Flight Attendant to exceed the No Option or Option I monthly limitation applicable, except as provided below, or create a conflict with the balance of his/her month's flying. Nothing herein affects the existing rights and practices under this Agreement regarding the pre-plotting of Open Time trip sequence(s) by the Company for Flight Attendants with AVBL days, except as provided for in paragraph C.4.d. of this Article. 1. Eligibility 2. Limitations a. Pre-plotting shall be prohibited as of 0001 local base time, one (1) day prior to the scheduled departure of the first leg of the Open Time trip sequence. b. Crew Schedule may prohibit pre-plotting up to seventy-two (72) hours prior to the scheduled departure of the first leg of an Open Time trip sequence. In cases of operational necessity, pre-plotting may be prohibited for longer periods of time. The Company will notify the APFA in a timely manner, providing the reason for prohibiting pre-plotting. 3. Awarding Of "Pre-Plotted" Trip Sequence(s). Except as provided herein, pre-plotting shall be processed in accordance with Company procedures and may require the eligible Flight Attendant to notify Crew Schedule of the open time trip sequence(s) s/he is requesting to pre-plot. a. Open time trip sequences shall be pre-plotted on a first come, first served basis in accordance with Company procedures. b. When two or more requests are being processed simultaneously, seniority shall govern. 4. Computer Automation of Pre-Plotting a. Flight Attendants will be provided with an automated means of accessing and pre-plotting open trips. b. Upon request by the Flight Attendant, Crew Schedule will manually pre-plot open sequences when the automated system is unavailable. If two or more requests are received simultaneously for the same sequence, seniority will govern. This does not prohibit Crew Schedule from pre-plotting in accordance with paragraph C. of this Article. L. OPEN TIME - ORDER OF OPEN TIME COVERAGE Open flying which exists at the beginning of the month, as well as open time which develops during the course of the month, shall be assigned/awarded, to the extent possible, to replacement Flight Attendants and regularly scheduled Flight Attendants who have obligations to fly open time. If a Flight Attendant's projection is at or above his/her applicable monthly maximum, following an involuntary loss of time, such Flight Attendant may, at his/her option, have converted to AVBL days, a number of days equal to the number of days contained in the original sequence. These AVBL days may be placed on any remaining days on the Flight Attendant's schedule so long as the Flight Attendant has sufficient duty-free periods and is otherwise legal. Such Flight Attendant can, in addition to receiving call-out pay, recover the original time lost plus one (1) hour. Crew Schedule will not involuntarily assign a Flight Attendant electing AVBL days pursuant to this paragraph to any trip sequence. Open time may also be awarded through pre-plotting, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph K. of this Article, and through Trip Trading With Open Time, in accordance with Article 25. Requirements of the operation permitting, open flying which cannot be covered by these Flight Attendants shall be covered on a daily basis, in the follow order: 1. Flight Attendants whose names appear on the Make-Up List in order of seniority, provided there is no conflict with the balance of the month's flying, and the flying of the open trip sequence would not exceed the No-Option or Option I monthly limitation, as applicable. 2. Regularly scheduled Flight Attendants in order of seniority whose names appear on the Sick Time Make-Up List and then reserve Flight Attendants in order of seniority whose names appear on the Sick Time Make-Up List, at the option of the Company. *3. Reserve Flight Attendants and/or regularly scheduled Flight Attendants exercising Option II in order of seniority and then reserve Flight Attendants exercising Limited Option II in order of seniority. Crew Schedule will determine on a day-to-day basis whether to allocate time flown under this step to reserve Flight Attendants or Option II Flight Attendants or a combination of reserve and Option II Flight Attendants. 4. Flight Attendants who are available and low on time, in reverse order of seniority, provided, however, there is no conflict with another flying assignment or a scheduled duty-free period. 5. A reserve Flight Attendant who is scheduled for a duty-free period may be assigned to a trip sequence provided, however, such trip sequence is scheduled to terminate at his/her home base no later than twelve (12) hours from the scheduled start of his/her duty-free period. **6. Regularly scheduled Flight Attendants at the base in reverse order of seniority provided, however, there is no conflict with his/her scheduled duty-free period. **7. Reserve Flight Attendants on a scheduled duty-free period. ***8. Regularly scheduled Flight Attendants on a duty-free period, in reverse order of seniority. | *The Company shall notify the APFA when it begins assigning Domestic trip sequence(s) to International Reserves. Such assignments shall not occur unless necessary to maintain the Domestic Operation in accordance with Appendix I., Article 10.A.3. Crew Schedule shall provide an explanation of the reason(s) for using an International Reserve(s) on Domestic when requested by the APFA. **The Company shall notify the APFA when steps six (6), seven (7), and/or eight (8), have been reached. ***The Base Manager will make every attempt to contact the local APFA Chairperson when a staffing shortage exists, i.e., when it is necessary to assign trips to regularly scheduled Flight Attendants who are on a scheduled duty-free period. | M. "CHASE" FLIGHT ATTENDANTS Each base shall recruit and maintain a list of qualified Flight Attendants to "chase" a new or inexperienced Purser or galley Flight Attendant. Base staffing permitting, the Flight Attendant may be removed from schedule to perform the "chase". 1. New or inexperienced Purser or galley Flight Attendants may request a "chase" and may be granted a "chase" at the option of the Company.
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