Click the link below to view the minutes from the September 23rd Quarterly Reserve Meeting with Scheduling Management.
Dear Reserve Flight Attendants,
As many of you know, after our contract was ratified there was some confusion on how sit time would be paid for Reserve Flight Attendants. Management initially believed that sit time should count towards your guarantee and AFA believed that it should be paid above the guarantee. Several months ago, the parties agreed to AFA’s position. You should expect to see the retro pay on your your October 5th paycheck, please let us know if you believe you were due back pay and didn’t receive it.
In addition, a few of you would have qualified for the first quarter QPP if you had received the sit pay correctly. If this is the case, you will see the additional $500 QPP payment tomorrow (the 29th).
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to any Reserve Committee Member, MEC Reserve Chairperson Jarod McNeill or any of your Council 19 Officers.
Dear Reserve Flight Attendants,
As many of you know, after our contract was ratified there was some confusion on how sit time would be paid for Reserve Flight Attendants. Management initially believed that sit time should count towards your guarantee and AFA believed that it should be paid above the guarantee. Several months ago, the parties agreed to AFA’s position. You should expect to see the retro pay on your your October 5th paycheck, please let us know if you believe you were due back pay and didn’t receive it.
In addition, a few of you would have qualified for the first quarter QPP if you had received the sit pay correctly. If this is the case, you will see the additional $500 QPP payment tomorrow (the 29th).
Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Jarod McNeill
MEC Reserve Chairperson
Please join us for our joint AFA Meeting (LAX & SAN)
October 8th from 11 am -2pm
What A Dish Cafe
24921 Dana Point Harbor Drive, b 100
Dana Point, CA 92629
Please join us for lunch with guest speaker, Jeffery Peterson
RSVP by October 6th to:
LAX – Sandra Morrow – sleemorrow@verizon.net – 951-532-3880
SAN – Melanie Buker – melanie.buker@gmail.com – 208-890-1849
Please feel free to stay and join us for an un-hosted Happy Hour that starts at 3:00 pm.
3pm Update
Dear Seattle Flight Attendants,
As of 3pm today Seattle Open Time has been up and working since 2:33 pm. At this point, several days remain open and active trading appears to be working well. However, the initial concern with the system failure is still my main focus.
I have discussed the failure with Director of Crew Scheduling, Kieran Whitney, who reports that a corporate system update around 2pm today may be the culprit. I am awaiting futher information and will prepare a detailed blast for you in the upcoming days.
In the meantime, I have registered my complaints with the company for failing to provide a system that allows Seattle Flight Attendants (and Flight Attendants system wide) their contractual right to trade trips. They are working on a solution for next month and will be sharing the information with you, as well.
Rest assured, I will continue to press the issue with the company to ensure that contractual Open Time procedures are afforded to all Flight Attendants every month.
In Solidarity,
Laura Masserant
LEC President~ Council 19
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AFA recently sent out the “New Open Time User Guide,” which describes the reason codes associated with trips in Open Time. It has just come to our attention that eMaestro does not display the reason codes that are associated with the individual pairings in Open Time.
If you place your cursor over a specific date in the Open Time calendar, you can see the number of trips associated with each reason code that counts against the limiting of Open Time. You will also see the Threshold Sequence Number (TSN), which shows how many sequences need to be dropped into Open Time before the day becomes limited. However, the specific reason codes for each pairing are not yet visible.
AFA is committed to working with Alaska Airlines management and Jeppesen to display the reason codes on each individual pairing as soon as possible. Since the codes are already programmed into the system, we are hopeful the turnaround will be fairly brief. AFA will provide an update once we have additional information.
All other aspects of the new Open Time are expected to go live tomorrow.
In Solidarity,
Your MEC – Jeffrey Peterson, Brian Palmer, Yvette Gesch, Lisa Pinkston, Laura Masserant, Cathy Gwynn, Sandra Morrow and Stephen Couckuyt
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
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 5th , 9am-3pm
November 6th, 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 17th 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.
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