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        Hotel Committee Update – Winter 2023

        March 6, 2023 09:49

        Recent Hotel Changes

        Charleston: We have recently contracted with ———-. This was the AFA Hotel Committee’s choice, and we are happy the company secured this for our Flight Attendants. The hotel is right in town and is close to dining, shopping and entertainment. We hope you enjoy it. 

        Guadalajara: The current hotel we have been using (the —-) is quite a drive, so a hotel closer to the airport was needed for the short layovers. Both AFA and ALPA chose the ———— by the airport because of the proximity to the airport, the fact that it is a brand new build, restaurant offerings and hours that coordinate well with our arrival times and the amenities offered. We hope our crews will be happy with this hotel for short layovers. Please note, we are not giving up the RIU downtown for the longer layovers. 

        PLEASE NOTE: The above hotel names were removed for safety/security reasons, as this is public website.

        Hotel Incidental Charges

        We  are still getting reports of Flight Attendants making room charges or using items in the room that are not complimentary (snacks, mini bar or water). Please remember that water is NOT complimentary in all hotels, so make sure to check if there is a price attached to the bottle etc. Always remember to leave a credit card on file or pay when you check out if you are planning on making room charges or using room amenities that are not complimentary. Checking out and not paying for incidentals can lead to discipline up to and including discharge, so please be careful. 

        Refrigerators and Microwaves

        We would like to remind you that refrigerators and microwaves are NOT contractual, and we do not have plans on adding these to the language. When we do a site inspection, we do take this into account and we ask if they are available or if they can be made available. If we have two hotels that are comparable to choose from we take this into account when making the final decision. The reason we are not looking to add this to our language is that it could potentially lower the quality of hotels we have to choose from, including their locations. We will of course always advocate to choose properties that have the most amenities, but will take everything into account including location, etc. 

        Crew Care

        Do you use Crew Care? Anytime you have a contractual violation with your hotel accommodations, a Crew Care should be completed. You can find the link on the Inflight Website > Hotel & Station > Hotel Links > My Crew Care. If you have a hotel contract violation or if a hotel is having issues, please report it.  Please note, it is also nice to complete a Crew Care with compliments on hotels or for individual staff. We take these into account when selecting hotels or deciding to continue a relationship with a current property. Also, when you send in a compliment on a specific employee of a property, API will forward it to management on site and that employee will be recognized!

        Upcoming Hotel Site Inspections

        Site inspections are common when a contract comes up for renewal. Sometimes a current hotel is not interested in continuing the relationship, the hotel no longer meets the contractual language or we are simply re-assessing the market to see what other properties have become available.  We have site inspections coming up in the following markets:

        • SFO
        • ABQ
        • JFK (possibly)
        • CHS (short layover only, not looking to replace current DT hotel)
        • PSC/RDM
        • KOA
        • TPA/RSW
        • PHX
        • BUR
        • ORD

        Hotel Etiquette

        Please keep hotel etiquette and expectations in mind when on your layovers, including behavior of your guests. Even though you are on a layover, you are representing Alaska Airlines in a room paid for by them. Bad behavior will make its way back to management and will be acted on.

        Hotel Shuttles

        We utilize two different kinds of shuttles on our layovers. At some of our hotels we use hotel provided transportation and at others, we use a third party. When using a third party, it is at their discretion on whether they allow guests of employees or not. Please keep a few things in mind. Some of our transportation companies use an SUV that will only have enough seats for the working crew. In Charleston, the provider charges $10 per guest. The company we use is a small company and that fee covers the extra insurance they have to carry for guests. Also, in PVR a bulletin was previously issued reminding that guests cannot ride in the shuttle until further notice, as of today that bulletin has not been over turned. This is the policy of the transportation company. Please make sure if you are bringing guests to any of our layover hotels, be prepared to pay for transportation in case its not available for your guests (vehicle not large enough, etc). Also we would like to remind you that the shuttle time when leaving a hotel is the time that shuttle should be leaving the hotel, not the time you meet in the lobby. 

        As always, we advocate hard for the best hotels we can possibly secure. We always appreciate your feedback, we take it to heart and use all feedback when making our recommendations on crew layover hotels. If you have questions that do not warrant a Crew Care, you can reach the Seattle Hotel Chairperson at sea.hotel.chair@afaalaska.org.

        In Solidarity, 

        Your Seattle Hotel Committee

        Filed Under: Council 19 SEA Tagged With: Council 19

        Winter Scheduling Committee Update

        February 18, 2023 15:33

        WINTER 2023 SCHEDULING UPDATE

        DECEMBER 2022 Sea Snow and Ice storm 

        We saw a huge amount of OS tickets regarding scheduling and pay concerns from the December 2022 Sea Snow and Ice storm which kept us quite busy in January.  

        Most popular topics included: 

        • Pay – how to calculate and request pay queries to Crew Pay – Rainmaker Pay and User Guides 
        •  Reassignment  Section 10.R., Precancellation Section 10.S. , Holiday Premium Section 21.H. 
        • Stranded Pay Section 22.N, Holiday Indicator in OT – this is a Crew Access known issue, listed in the Crew Access Known Issues document on the Inflight Webpage.

        AFA and Management held a SEA Snowstorm debrief in early January to discuss relevant issues.  We appreciate and extend a big thank you to Jake Jones for his assistance overseeing tickets as we were swamped. 

        RAINMAKER – PAY AND USER GUIDES 

        There has been an uptick in questions about pay and Rainmaker. Questions include how to reach out to Crew Pay, pay queries, how to respond to comments, how to expand pay buckets, timelines for crew pay responses, what needs an activity claim form, and what processes are automated. 

        Please continue to use these available resources as tools to assist with understanding how to use Rainmaker.  

        All this Information can be found on the FA webpage  > administration > pay & benefits > rainmaker 

        • Rainmaker User Guide 
        • Rainmaker Job Aide – View Reports 
        • Rainmaker Job Aide – Commenting and Activity Claims 
        • Rainmaker FAQs 
        • Rainmaker Job Aide – Viewing Banks 

        Although it may be time consuming, we recommend that all flight attendants take the time to review these guides to assist them in understanding Rainmaker and how they are paid. 

         A few highlights: 

        Rainmaker User Guide (pages 4, 5, & 20) outline details of pay timelines. 

        Crew Pay will not process certain trip pay concerns until the month is completed. These reports are a manual process and they pull ALL reports at month-end and then process.  FAs can expect that in these certain pay scenarios it could be up to two weeks for Crew Pay to respond, until the report is pulled and trip pay worked This typically can take up to the 10th of the month following occurrence that resulted in the query. 

        CREW ACCESS FILTERS 

        We continue to get tickets opened with the Crew Access filter not showing correctly (showing UTC TIME). This is a known issue. We hope to have this fixed in the March Crew Access release. 

        Please continue to open IT tickets and report your concerns to management. 

        WAIVING CREW REST 48/7 – 24/7  

        This time of year, we get tickets from disappointed FAs who waive their Contractual Rest. Due to operational concerns (typically weather related) their waived rest falls below FAR minimums. They are removed from their trips or portion of (SIP point) without Pay Protection until their rest is restored. (Section 8.N. Waiver of Contractual Rest).  

        Section 8.N. WAIVER OF CONTRACTUAL REST

        A Flight Attendant who waives any contractually required rest, and who then operationally would fall below any CFR-required rest period, will be pulled from sufficient flights to resolve the CFR illegality. The Flight Attendant will not be pay protected.

        SHORT LAYOVERS (10:00 – 10:40 hours duration) 

        The past several months we have seen a slight increase in pairings with short layover duration at 10:10 – 10:40 minute layovers. (mostly GDL) We requested a review of the 10:40 GDL layovers.  

        Continue to track short layovers with longer duty days with multiple landings. 

        If you see a consistent trip with a short layover please let us know. 

        We do not have statistics on Fatigue Risk Management however we do want FAs to be aware of this program. You can find the full text of the AFA LOA under Letters Of Agreement in our CBA – Fatigue Risk Management Plan – AFA LOA 2020-06-02

        VACATION PAYOUT REQUEST 

        Flight Attendants may request to have their  2023 vacation paid out in advance of the scheduled dates.  

        There is a form for FAs to request and submit to Crew Pay. This is found at: 

        • FA Webpage 
        • Administration 
        • Pay & Benefits 
        • Vacation Payout Form  

        Instructions are found within the form to explain how to request early pay for vacation. 

        CARE RETREAT 

        Many FAs were assigned Care Retreat in March.  

        Those who have been assigned can trade their March care retreat period starting on February 17th @ 9:00 am (the day after March open time trading begins). Information is found on the PBS information page. 

        If they want to pick up a day in February, they can find available dates in February open time. If they find a date that works they’ll need to call CS to manually place it on their schedule. They need to be sure the March date is removed. 

        This is considered a company required training. You can access this information on the PBS website under Information – Trading Timelines at the bottom of the chart. (Trading of Recurrent and company required training). 

        NEW COMMUTER FLOWCHART    

        AFA has finalized a new COMMUTER FLOWCHART. 

        It can be found in the Scheduling section on the AFA Website, along with the Pre-Cancellation, Reassignment, Reassignment Pay and Irregular Ops Quick Reference Sheet. 

        • AFA Website
        • Main Page 
        • Committees 
        • Scheduling 
        • Tools and Resources (right hand side) 

        Click to access 2023.1.11-Commuter-Policy-Flow-chart.pdf

        NEW DIRECTOR INFLIGHT CREW SCHEDULING 

        Sara Cook has been promoted to Director of Inflight Crew Scheduling 

        NEW SEA SCHEDULING COMMITTEE MEMBER 

        We want to welcome Paula Isla-McGill to the Sea Scheduling Committee.  Paula has completed AFA 101 and will soon be trained in the OS Ticket System. Once completed she will be added to our committee list on the AFA Webpage. 

        Filed Under: Council 19 SEA

        Council #19 Winter Newsletter

        February 18, 2023 15:26

        Winter Newsletter

        Council #19 SEA

        PARKING

        We continue to be asked when garage parking will end, and why those who have returned from a Leave of Absence, or will be returning soon do not have garage parking restored.  The Port refuses to issue additional garage parking.  All other carriers besides Alaska have already lost garage parking.  The current estimate is ‘sometime in March.’  That said, we’ve also been advised that since Delta has left the garage, the North Parking lot is now at capacity.  Apparently Alaska will be contracting for a new parking facility only for Alaska employees, that is about 10 minutes north of the North Parking lot.  They plan to use Alaska owned buses, and McGee employees to operate the buses.

        CBTs

        We continue to have issues with Flight Attendants not completing CBTs timely.  Discipline is then issued.  We are aware that some have had technical issues with completion.  If you are having difficulty, please contact the IT help desk.  Several have moved through steps of discipline, up to and including suspensions for failure to complete CBTs. Until you receive an email that your CBT is complete, and verify through Cornerstone that it is no longer listed, your CBT is ‘in progress.’  

        Commuter Violations

        Every month the Company reviews Commuter Travel (D8Y) usage.  Violating the commuter policy, does result in discipline.  The most common issues include using D8Y status after being released from a deadhead at a city other than one’s domicile, rather than E1Y travel.  In addition, we have continuing issues resulting in disciplinary action that involve commuting to base during the reserve availability period.  Even if one has self-assigned, the reserve availability period is the required time to be in base.  Assignments (even self-assignments) can be changed.  

        Pre-Board of Directors Local Council Meeting

        This year is a ‘budget only’ Board of Directors meeting.  The budget for the fiscal year 2023/2024 has been prepared and will soon be sent out to all BOD delegates (the Local Council Presidents for each base.)  We have scheduled a pre-Board of Director’s meeting to review the budget, from 1-3 pm on March 15, 2023.  This meeting will take place in the Earhardt Room on the lowest level of the STOC, in the South Tower.  This building is directly across the street from the airport, in the same building that houses 13 Coins Restaurant.

        Filed Under: Council 19 SEA Tagged With: Council 19

        Joint Council Meeting

        April 20, 2022 01:02

        This is a reminder for our Joint Local Council Meeting on April 21st at 1PM and we hope you can attend. This meeting will be primarily to review the agenda for the Board of Directors meeting taking place in May. 

        Joint Local Council Meeting

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        Filed Under: Council 19 SEA

        Sunset of NavBlue ClassBid & PBS Base Sits

        January 3, 2022 19:30

        NavBlue is sunsetting the old PBS bidding interface, ClassBid, after the March 5-14 bid period. Once ClassBid is retired, Flight Attendants will only have access to the new interface, WebApp, for PBS bidding.  

        3 months of PBS Base Sits – February 2022-April 2022

        Look for the March base sit schedule prior to February 5th, and the April base sit schedule prior to March 5th

        February- Access to both ClassBid (old) and WebApp (new)

        March- Access to both ClassBid (old) and WebApp (new)

        April- Access to only WebApp (new)

        February Base Sit Schedule:

        Location SEA Inflight

        • 2/5 9am-9pm
        • 2/6 9am-5pm
        • 2/7 5am-9pm
        • 2/8 5am-9pm
        • 2/9 5am-9pm

        WebApp Help:

        WebApp Quick Reference Guide

        WebApp Tutorial

        WebApp Q&A from May-July 2021 WebApp Virtual Trainings

        WebApp Program Guide

        WebApp Videos

        (You will need to be logged into your AAG account to access WebApp Quick Reference, WebApp Q&A, and WebApp Program Guide)

        Your Default bid will not need to be re-created in WebApp it is already there, the only time your Default bid is erased is when you transfer/swap bases.

        Login to Webapp through the Inflight Page>Schedule & Bidding>Line Bidding or by going directly to the site, https://asapbs.navblue.aero/webapp. Once ClassBid is retired the ClassBid (old) link on the Inflight Page will go away, and the URL will redirect to WebApp.

        You can reach the PBS Committee by emailing pbs.qa@alaskaair.com.

        Filed Under: Council 19 SEA

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