AFA Council 30 Local Base Meeting

Date: November 3^rd
Time: Noon-2pm
Location: Uncle Joe’s Pizzeria
11700 Old Seward Highway
Anchorage, AK 99515

Please join your newly elected officers and Committee Chairs as we host our first Council 30 Base Meeting!

Agenda

1. Call meeting to order
   Call for late agenda items
   Late Agenda Items
   Announcements
2. Officer Update
   LEC President Report
   LEC VP Report
   LEC Secretary Budget and Membership Report
3. Committee Update
   Air Safety, Health, and Security Chair Report
   Benefits Chair Report
   Communications Chair Report
   Employee Assistance Program Chair Report
   Government Affairs Chair Report
   Hotel Chair Report
   Inflight Service Chair Report
   Reserve Chair Report
   Scheduling Chair Report
   Uniform Chair Report
4. Open Time Update/Feedback

Please RSVP and advise if you would like anything added to the agenda by November 1^st to LEC Secretary, Laura Rueckert at laura.rueckert@afaalaska.org.

We look forward to seeing all of you!!

Your ANC LEC Officers

ANC Semi-Annual Base Safety Meeting

Our ANC Semi-Annual Base Safety Meeting is Thursday, October 29th from 11am – 3pm.  If you are interested in attending please email or call to let me know.  Also, if you plan to attend or not, please take a few minutes and email me any safety, health, or security concerns so we can add your items to our agenda.

We look forward to hearing from you and thank you so much,

Ruth Ann Bledsoe, ANC F/A
Phone: (907) 854-3393
Air Safety, Health, and Security Chair
ruthann.bledsoe@gmail.com

Update on Open Time Fixes

We just wanted to update you on a few things that are on a list to be fixed in the New Open Time system.  There are four things that going to be fixed in the coming months:

1. Net 40 Calculator being visible in Maestro.
2. No need to recall your trip before being able to trade with OT.
3. Correct coding of trips – programing the TX code.
4. Codes displaying on trips in Maestro.

We will keep you posted on the progress of these fixes, but please know they are on the list and actively being addressed.  Once the coding is corrected, this will allow you the ability to trade a trip on your line with a trip in OT coded with anything other than DD, CP or TO (e.g. TX, SL, ML, UB, CB, etc.) for a different report date as long as you are covering the same days of flying or greater.  For example, you have a two day trip on October 20/21 and you want to trade for a 3 day trip on October 19/20/21 in OT coded TX.  This trade will be approved once the TX coding is programed.

We appreciate everyone’s feedback on this new open time system.

In Solidarity,

Your ANC LEC Officers

New Hotel Tab

There is no longer a need to be standing in the shuttle pick up area at an airport wondering what hotel to go to.

Check out the new tab on the Flight Attendant Web Page:

HOTELS

Very simple, just type in your trip number and the date and hit submit.  Instantly and clearly you will know where you are staying and how you are getting there.

Unless you are on a 1000 pairing – then you must call scheduling!

Please check out the site. It has just about everything you need to know about Crew Hotels.

Feel free to send me any feedback or if you have any questions.

Dori Marron
Anc LEC Hotel Chair
907-250-0797
mailfordori@yahoo.com

https://afaalaska.org/anc/6375

Mark Your Calendars With the Following Important Events!

 PBS SITS 

Members of the PBS Committee and Crew Planning will be in the ANC Base in November to help with holiday bidding.

November 5^th , 9am-3pm

November 6^th,   5am-1230pm

Hope to see you!

THE SCHEDULING COMMITTEE MEETS MONTHLY IN SEATTLE

The next two meetings are scheduled for September 24, and October 22.

Reach out to Co-Chairs Karen Ferrell and Stephen Fritts with any scheduling questions or issues that you would like to see addressed.  We will be following up with information from these meetings when they get back.

UPCOMING UNIFORM COMMITTEE MEETING

The Uniform Committee will be meeting in Seattle on October 9.  Destiny Topps, our Local Uniform Committee Chair is seeking feedback.  Communication is key to making sure we are provided with what works best for our workgroup. If you have any suggestions or comments regarding the new uniform pieces, please email Destiny (destinytopps@yahoo.com ) prior to October 1.

FIRST ROUND OF VACATION BIDDING IS OPEN!

Refer to bulletin: #2015-0212 for more information.

First Round: September 8, 2015 – September 22, 2015 (midnight); awards posted by September 28, 2015.

Second Round: October 2, 2015 – October 15, 2015 (midnight); awards posted by October 23, 2015.

If you have enough days to bid two (2) or more openings and you only bid one (1) opening, you will be assigned your second block of seven (7) or more days.

1 – 13 days: must bid all in first opening

14 – 20 days: bid in one or two openings

21+ days: bid in one or two openings in the First Round; may leave seven (7) or more days for Second Round

Do not leave yourself less than seven (7) days to bid in the second round.

Bid remaining days**  after First Round in up to four (4) openings. Again, each opening must contain at least seven (7) days.

**The remaining days available for the Second Round on your bid form when the Second Round opens.

***If you forget to bid in the Second Round, you will be assigned after all Second Round bids are awarded.

Vacation Trading will start October 28, 2015.

You will have until October 31, 2015 to trade January 1-4, 2016 vacation days.

NEW OPEN TIME PROCESS

Refer to Bulletin #2015-0210

New OPEN TIME key points:

Start date for trading/dropping trips is the 15th of the month.  This date is for both FA-to-FA trades and OT trades.

New start times for each base:

• SAN-9am PT
• PDX-10am PT
• ANC-11am PT
• LAX-12pm PT
• SEA-2pm PT

Out of domicile pick-ups start on the 17^th of each month.

Calendar will still show a white background for an open day and gray for a limited day just like before.

You can now drop a trip into Open Time without trading, if the day is open.

Starting Sept 15th for Oct Flying, only the day on which the trip reports has to be open in order for the trip to be traded or dropped.

4K sequences will be processed within the system, no need to contact Crew Scheduling after Sept 15 for OCT sequences.

In Solidarity,

Your LEC Officers – Lisa Pinkston, Karen Ferrell, and Laura Rueckert

Do you have ideas for future articles or communications from Council 30?  Email Local Communications Chairperson LeiLauni Hixssen at leilauni.hixssen@gmail.com.