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        You are here: Home / Latest News / AFA News Now / Issues with Crew Access: December 16, 2023

        Issues with Crew Access: December 16, 2023

        December 16, 2023 16:00

        Scheduling, Grievance, and Hotel Committees

        • Hotel reservation details are not populating in pairings. 
        • The “Drop” (to Open Time) drop-down was reported by a few (but not all) Flight Attendant as not visible prior to Open Time opening.
        • Drops to Open Time were not functioning for January 24-30, 2024, for all domiciles except Seattle until just before 2 PM PT.

        What will come as no surprise to anyone, Crew Access is malfunctioning once again. So far, there are three issues identified:

        1. Hotel reservation details are not populating in pairings, 
        2. The “Drop” (to Open Time) drop-down was reported by a few (but not all) Flight Attendant as not visible prior to Open Time opening, and 
        3. Drops to Open Time were not functioning for January 24-30, 2024, for all domiciles except Seattle until just before 2 PM PT. (Reminder: January 31 is the first day of the February bid month.) Seattle appeared to open normally at 2 PM PT.

        Hotel reservation details not populating in pairings

        This outage is specific to Jeppesen and not related to API. Outdated or no hotel information is being displayed. However, Crew Scheduling (CS) is manually updating hotel information in Crew Access. Additionally, the hotel information in the My Crew Care (API) app is importing correctly and is accurate.

        [Update: This issue has been resolved as of 12/16/2023 @ 18:36 PT ^MECP Jeff]

        Drop to Open Time not visible prior to Open Time opening for some Flight Attendants

        So far, this does not appear to be a widespread issue, and Alaska ITS is investigating.

        Drops to Open Time were not functioning for January 24-30, 2024

        Alaska ITS and Jeppesen appeared to resolve the issue just before 2 PM PT, which meant that Seattle opened normally at 2 PM. Our Master Executive Council (MEC) and management have agreed to an initial remedy to help mitigate the impact of this outage (for all domiciles except Seattle):

        Overview:

        In chronological order, CS will review the Flight Attendants who attempted to drop trips to Open Time on these days but were unsuccessful. CS will offer to manually drop their trip into OT. CS will work down the list until they meet the contractually required number of Threshold Sequence Number (TSN) trips for the respective base. ITS has a report of all Open Time drop transactions, so they can replicate who attempted to drop trips first. This report will become available at 2:30 PM PT, but they will need time to prepare the report into a workable format for these purposes. Inflight Crew Scheduling Management will begin to contact Flight Attendants this evening to see if they wish to drop their trip. This process will preserve the integrity of the first-come, first-serve method of Open Time to give those who attempted to drop first the flexibility they attempted to achieve.  

        Details:

        1. CS will place the identified sequence (processed in chronological order) in Open Time and hide the pairing until they can make positive contact with the Flight Attendant to confirm that they still want the trip dropped. The Flight Attendant will see a FCR (pre-cancellation) on their line until they confirm the drop. The use of FCR is to protect legalities should the Flight Attendant decide they wanted the sequence back and not dropped into Open Time anymore.
        2. Once CS confirms the Flight Attendant wants the pairing dropped, they will unhide it in Open Time.
        3. If FA does not want the trip dropped, CS will put it back on their roster and move down the list.
        4. The timeframe for Flight Attendants to call back will be 24 hours. If the Flight Attendant does not call CS back within 24 hours, then their sequence will be placed back on their roster and CS will move down the list.
        5. If the Flight Attendant who is first on the list no longer has the pairing they attempted to drop for that date, CS will move down the list.
        6. This process will be completed until the TSN max equivalent is met for each base.

        Ongoing dispute resolution

        This situation is completely unacceptable, and our top priority is ensuring our contractual provisions are adhered to and protected. The tools that you rely on for contractual flexibility should work. Our Grievance Committee will continue to seek appropriate remedies via the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) process.

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        Filed Under: AFA News Now, Grievance Committee, Hotel Committee, Scheduling Committee Tagged With: crew access, Open Time

        Comments

        1. Todd says

          December 22, 2023 at 17:36

          For third month in a row when trying to drop a trip I don’t even get que numbers. Just a spinner and then times out. Should see something like 27/30 but nothing. I’m not even in the system as trying to drop.

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