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Arctic Ascent (Mar ’17)

Welcome to the March edition of your Local Council 30 Newsletter, Arctic Ascent!

This monthly newsletter has important dates, ANC FAQs, Inflight Service changes, Reserve and Scheduling tips, and other information we hope will help you on line.

Dates:

March 30th,
11:30am – 3:00pm

Pairings Discussion

Alaska Airlines Regional Headquarters
 April 7th,
10:00am-1:00pm

Bidding 101

 Alaska Airlines Regional Headquarters

 May 5th,
1) 9:30am-12:30pm
2) 1:00pm-4:00pm

 Bidding Tutorials:
1) Bidding 101
2) Beyond the Basics		 Alaska Airlines Regional Headquarters

May 8th,
10:00am-1:00pm

Local Council 30 Meeting

Alaska Airlines Regional Headquarters

FAQs:

Sida Badge Clarification:

  • You must clear TSA screening when you are deadheading.
  • You must clear TSA screening when you are non-reving, jumpseating, meeting a flight, or shopping/eating in the airport.
  • You may only access the secure area with your SIDA badge when you are working crew (not DHD).

Text Notifications:

  • Council 30 now has Text Notifications! This bulletin explains how to sign up.

Charter – Combi as Freighter

  •  CS would prefer you bid for the Charter in First Class. If you can’t use First Class, send an email as discussed in info bulletin 2017-0039.

Inflight Service:

Straws added to First Class. Use straws if possible; they are cheaper than pokies!

Extra chocolates added to EWR, ORD, and DCA flights.

Icy Bay IPA replaced Fremont IPA this month.

Crew price for Pringles and M&Ms now added to BOB app.

Ramekins for salad dressing  added to Hawaii and TransCon flights.

First class meal ratios changed to 70% meat, 30% vegetarian.

Send catering feedback to Catering.Feedback@alaskaair.com, CC Betsy Demay.

Reserve:

The Reserve Self-Assignment timeline in ANC has been fixed. Reserve Self-Assignment is now contractual, 10:00am-2:00pm PT or 9:00am-1:00pm AKST the day prior to an assignment.

  • A patch for Crew Access fixed Self-Assign for APSB; you no longer call CS.
  • Self-Assigned APSB do not count toward maximum four from CBA § 11.F.14.
  • You are still contactable during normal hours after Self-Assigning a trip.
  • Your Self-Assigned trip may only be changed for operational necessity.
    • Please notify Matt Cook if your trip is changed so he may monitor.

The tentative timeline for posting/trading/splitting reserve on Crew Access is April.

Don’t forget: check your Alaska email at the end of every trip for further assignments!

If you have any Reserve questions or concerns, please email Matt Cook.

Scheduling:

Because of pairing number issues, April bids are extended to March 11th at 9:00 PT.

Due to changes in active FAs for April, the posted line average is 78.0, not 76.5.

CS turned off updates to phone calendars because of the multitude of discrepancies.

  • The calendar will not update until IT has resolved various issues.
  • In the meantime, view your schedule on Crew Access>Roster or Calendar.

Print and view your trip easily by clicking the Trip Number hyperlink in your Roster.

The new bidding system is anticipated to begin use in July for August bids.

  • There will be a three month overlap/parallel bid with both systems.
  • More details will be sent as we get closer to the launch.

We return to our contractual Trading Timeline this month:

Posting Trips:
14th @ 1900 AKST
(2000 PST)

FA – FA Trades:
15th @ 1000 AKST
(1100 PST)

OT & Recurrent Trades:
15th @ 1000 AKST
(1100 PST)

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