This page was created when our website launched in December '05 and is provided for ALL Reserve F/As - it contains info every Reserve must be aware of. Be fully informed when issues, legalities, or contact from OPBSK (the Crew Desk) occur.

There are resources available to us online and in our Contract (click HERE for information on a missing Contract). Many F/As find that knowing their Contract or having it with them prevents many violations. If you fly without your Contract, you will be without reference for protection. Don't leave home without it!

Immediate Action Items - OPBSK Contact:

Document name of the scheduler BEFORE proceeding with call.

Obtain & document specific Contract references for future follow-up.

Report the scheduler to us for follow-up and tracking.

Don't get caught off-guard when on RESERVE! Keep AFActs & Reserve Survival Guide with you at all times!

If you are unsure about a reassignment or legality, you should always ask the scheduler to note what section of the Contract you are being reassigned or scheduled under. Always note the time/date and name of the scheduler you spoke to, and print copies of your ID wherever possible, for future follow-up.

No action can be taken on spoken word - documentation & detailed specifics ensure accountability and enables action to be taken to prevent future violations.

The Reserve Checklist - "Must Haves" For Reserves

Print & place these in your tote. Don't leave home without them!   • AFActs - print the entire packet! • Reserve Survival Guide - print the entire packet! • Domestic Duty Time Protection Packet - print it! • Scheduling Codes & LOF Diagnostics - print it! • Printable Timetable: Trades, PTO, Open Flying, ANP • Reserve Pay Clarification from unitedafa.org!

Read these articles for more important info! • 2006 Reserve Articles - read them! • 2005 Reserve Articles - read them! • 2004 Reserve Articles - read them! • 2003 Reserve Articles - read them! • Reserve Section 10 of the Contract - review it! • Purser (FS) Position Information - review it! • Review 'Bulletin Board' for Important Reminders! • Review Reserve Info in Monthly Cover Packet • Flight Line Directory from Monthly Cover Packet

Reserve F/As Returning From RET   When a Reserve (CLLR, RSV) F/A returns from RET, a 12-hour legal rest is required (10.D.3.a.). Since Unimatic does not identify a "release time" for RET, you must immediately contact OPBSK to notify them when you return (to your home domicile) from RET. Please advise your fellow Reserves!

RET Reserve Reminder directly from the Monthly Cover Packet: RESERVES IN ‘MAY GO’ MONTH MAY BE ASSIGNED. HOWEVER, IF A FLIGHT ATTENDANT IS RESERVE DURING THEIR ‘MAY GO’ MONTH AND DOES NOT WISH TO ATTEND RET, SEND DIS*884 BEFORE PRIMARY LINEHOLDER RET BIDS CLOSE. ANY REQUESTS RECEIVED AFTER THAT DATE WILL NOT BE HONORED. RESERVES IN ‘BASE’ MONTH WILL BE ASSIGNED. ANY Reserve may be assigned to RET in their "May Go" month!

Quarter Max - Section 7.A. and 12.G. - Excerpt From 8/22/07 E-Lines:   If you are serving Reserve, you might reach your quarterly maximum and enjoy release from some of your previously scheduled Reserve days at the end of the month thanks to Sections 7.A. and 12.G. of our Contract. Remember that if you are scheduled on Reserve through the last day of the month, you can be flown the difference of your quarterly credited time or your FTM and maximum time prior to midnight on the last day of the month. This would include a flight that departs shortly before midnight which would require only a few minutes of availability below your maximum. If you’ve reached your quarterly maximum, Section 10.H.2. states that you can still be flown up to 87 hours in the third month of quarter as a Reserve, regardless of your quarter maximum, even if it puts you over your quarterly maximums. However, if you receive ANP/WOP for the third month of the quarter, your monthly maximum will be reduced by the appropriate amount.

End of Quarter Reserve Legality Reminders - Excerpt From 2/15/08:   If you are serving Reserve, you may reach your quarterly maximum and be released from some of your previously scheduled Reserve days at the end of the month in accordance with Sections 7.A. and 12.G. of our Contract. However, remember that if you are scheduled on Reserve through the last day of the month, you can be flown the difference of your quarterly credited time or your FTM and maximum time prior to midnight on the last day of the month. This would include a flight that departs shortly before midnight which would require only a few minutes of availability below your maximum. If you have reached your quarterly maximum, Section 10.H.2. states that you can still be flown up to 87 hours in the third month of quarter as a Reserve, even if it puts you over your quarterly maximums. However, if you are awarded ANP/PTO for the third month of the quarter, your monthly maximum will be reduced by the appropriate amount.   Additionally, Section 10.C.11. of our Contract provides that F/As who are transitioning from their Lineholder month to a Reserve month must be available at 2000 for assignments departing after midnight, but Contractual legal rest provisions apply to availability time if coming off a trip. Section 10.C.10. requires that F/As who are on Reserve and going into a new Reserve month from days off must be available at 0001 for assignments and could be required to report for duty as early as 0500. Remember that all assignments must be made in accordance with the provisions of our Contract and applicable F.A.R.S., such as 30-in-7, 1-in-7 and 24-in-7.

Wide-Body Purser Pay for Entire Duty Period F/As flying IDs with mixed flying will be paid wide-body Purser pay as outlined in Section 5.B of the Contract for the entire duty period containing the wide-body segment. We encourage all F/As to review their pay files to ensure this activity is properly posted in the DFAP. Narrow/Wide-Body Mixed IDS & Qualified Pursers - Excerpt from 11/14/06 DEAR-AFA: Further complicating the award of schedules, the use of widebody aircraft on certain segments during the month in combination with the Company's continuing practice of mixing widebody and narrowbody aircraft in domestic IDs will result in an increased need for F/As with a purser qualification. In some locations, this increase is significant. The reserve requirement set by the Company at each location and this increased need for F/As with a purser qualification will have a significant impact on the award of schedules.   We encourage all F/As to review the Bid Package Cover Letter for the reserve and purser requirements at your location. In all instances, we strongly recommend you bid to cover yourself to ensure the schedule you fly during the holiday is one in which you have exercised your seniority rather than one in which you have been assigned as the result of an insufficient bid. REMEMBER: This is for the entire Duty Period, not the entire ID.

Lineholder To Reserve - End Of Month Transitions Excerpt From April 2005 "A/B Rotation Revisited" Article:   Another point to be aware of when transitioning from a lineholder to a reserve month concerns picking up or trading into IDs that overlaps into the reserve month. Many F/As do this to in effect "stretch" their lineholder status into the new month as far as possible and reduce the number of days they have to be on reserve. The thinking is that any days off the overlap trip infringes upon will have to be restored bringing them up to 11 days off in the reserve month. This is not necessarily true. When transitioning from a lineholder to a reserve month, as a result of a System Board of Adjustment decision (HNL 29-78, see next box), if the trip trade or open flying request is awarded BEFORE lines are awarded for the following month, any days off missed in the new month due to the overlap trip are not restored. If however the trip is awarded AFTER lines are awarded, the days off must be restored. Also be advised that after completing an ID that begins in a lineholder month, you are only entitled to lineholder legal rest after the ID, even if the trip ends in your reserve month. This can lead to a legal rest as short as 10 hours free from duty as opposed to 12 in the beginning of the reserve month. Please note also, when you transition from a Reserve month to a Line month, your Reserve legal rest applies up until the start of the Lineholder ID.

Lineholder to Reserve - Overlap Trips - System Board of Adjustment Decision HNL 29-78: When going on Reserve (from a Lineholder to a Reserve month), be careful when picking up or trading for an overlap trip that begins at the end of the old (Lineholder) month and returns at the beginning of the new (Reserve) month. If you picked up the trip prior to line awards for the new month, any days off in the new month that the trip may interfere with, does not have to be restored. However, if the company allowed you to pick up the trip after lines have been awarded for the new month, any days off interfered with would have to be restored.

Check-In Times Prior to 0459 - Duty Time & Assignment Advisory - Excerpt From 7/11/07 E-Lines: Over the past several months we’ve reminded all Members to pay attention to duty time limitations. When management made the decision to move the first bank of flights to an earlier time slot departing prior to 0600, F/A duty time maximums were affected based upon the language in Section 7.I.4.a. of our Contract for check-in time prior to 0459. This language dictates the maximum duty day based on the starting time of the duty period according to your home domicile time. These earlier departures will be subject to duty periods of 11 and a half hours scheduled and 13 hours actual. Refer to your Contract for your specific circumstances.  These earlier check-ins also impact the assignment process for Call-in Reserves. Section 10.C.5. of our Contract defines the trips included in the 1900 Call-in Reserve assignment process. “Open positions with check-in times in the 24-hour period beginning at 0500 the following morning shall be assigned to Call-in Reserves according to their 1-, 2-, 3-, 4- or more day classifications in time accrued order and qualification.” This means that a Call-in Reserve may not be assigned a trip checking-in prior to 0500 the morning after the assignment is made, but may be assigned a trip report 0459 or earlier the second morning after the 1900 Call-in assignment is made. For example: during tonight’s July 10th 1900 Call-in Reserve assignment process, schedulers must assign all IDs checking in between 0500 on the 11th of July and 0459 on the 12th of July to available and qualified Call-in Reserves. If there is an ID in open flying that is scheduled to check-in at 0445 on July 12th, it must be assigned on the 1900 tape on the 10th of July in accordance with the Call-in assignment process applicable to all other open flying within those 24 hours from 0500 to 0459.  With the addition of IDs checking in prior to 0500, it is more likely that these trips will be available for assignment on the 1900 tape two nights before departure.

ONSB F/As Should NOT Be Used To Board A Flight - Excerpt From 2005 "Stand-By Revisited" Article: A stand-by reserve should not be given an assignment to board a flight until the delayed outbound crew shows up. However, Section 9.M.3.b. (p.75), does allow the crew desk to make provisions to protect a flight when they have reason to believe an inbound crew may misconnect. It can happen that stand-bys can be told to go work a flight, be in the middle of boarding, and the original crew shows up to work. Section 9.M.3.b. allows the original crew to take their flight. This is legal as long as the original INTENT was to have the stand-bys work that flight (instead of just boarding the passengers), and it later turns out that the original crew was not as late as expected. This is why it is so important to always get a hard copy of your line, FLTLOF, and ID when assigned a flight - to prove that there was some sort of intent to work the flight and not just board it. Even if a stand-by is being told to hurry to the gate, reserves always have the right to obtain a hard copy of their ID, and an updated LOF showing that ID in it. Don't give up this right! Remind fellow Reserves to avail themselves the right to print their ID!

Reserve Scheduling & Crew Scheduler Reporting Form [11.28.06] -- The MEC & LEC Reserve Committees created a reporting form for Reserve F/As to document issues/concerns with OPBSK and scheduling legalities. Take a moment to print out the form and keep it with you in your tote. Submit via AFA box in the domicile mailfile room for follow up by our LEC Reserve Committee. Remember, if you don't report it - it didn't happen! Don't forget to use the form and feel free to provide copies to your flying partners!  Reserve Scheduling & Crew Scheduler Reporting Forms: • Click HERE to download the Print Version (to carry, or submit to AFA box). • Click HERE to download the Edit Version* (type-in format, submit via email). * NOTE: Edit Version (type-in) requires you to save the document to your computer, then re-save & return it as an email attachment. Tell your fellow Reserves about this reporting tool - Reporting benefits us all!

RUMOR BOX Rumor: ONSB assignments must be assigned to 4 or more day Reserves only. Answer: False. Review Section 10.G. of the Contract for specifics and download the RSV Survival Guide.

2007 Reserve Letter Effective February - Excerpt from 1/12/07 E-Lines:    Bidding for our February schedules starts tomorrow and we want to highlight a few considerations for F/As serving A/B rotation. Your 2007 Reserve letter is effective beginning this month through next January 2008. Check your LOFBID screen (next to your seniority number) to verify your reserve letter. Keep in mind, Section 10.B.2. of our Contract provides that a Reserve on vacation or ANP for seven (7) days or more will not be awarded a move-up line until after the period of unavailability. So, if you bid an end of month vacation as a Reserve, you will be by-passed on the Reserve move-up list during the month. February is the third month of the quarter and a Reserve may be flown up to 87 hours or to the quarterly maximum, whichever is greater.

Reserve - Days Off Infringed Upon - Check your CONTRACT - This info also in the "Reserve Survival Guide" 10.D.1.a. - A reserve shall be relieved of all duties for eleven (11) calendar days each month at her/his home domicile.... 10.D.1.b. - Reserve calendar days off are from midnight to midnight. When a reserve arrives at her/his domicile and the duty period ends after midnight on a scheduled day off, she/he will be given that day off or the day following the last day in that days-off sequence; or may at that time select any other day off in the month which, in the opinion of the Company, would not result in coverage problems. In the event the reserve elects an additional day off, she/he will be available for duty for the remainder of the violated day.   If an ID infringes upon a scheduled day off - lowering your Reserve days off below the Contractual minimum of 11 days, you must notify the scheduler immediately. Failure to notify will result in waiver of the day off that was interfered with.

Reserve Last Day of the Month Availability - Reserve to Lineholder From Page 9 of the Reserve Survival Guide: Going from Reserve to Lineholder status from one month to the next, if you are on Reserve at the end of the month and have any time left in the month, you may receive a multi-day assignment departing on that last day. This is true even if it works you into days off in your Lineholder month, or causes you to miss or be illegal for your first trip as a Lineholder in the new month (Section 10.C.11) though you are still entitled to ten days off in your lineholder month. Reserve assignment procedures may also be altered to protect your first trip as a lineholder in the new month (Section 10.C.13.b.). This provision exists because there would be no way for SK to cover multi-day trips that depart on the last day or two of the schedule month. Once a significant portion of the domicile is on A/B rotation, a check of RSVFLY on the last day of the month will show only one-day reserves available since most F/As become lineholders on the first day of the new month.

Minimum 11 Days Off, Overlap, Etc - Excerpt from E-LINES on 10/13/06: Our Contract considers the unique work life experienced while subject to Reserve assignment through protections in pay and work rule provision specific to F/As on Reserve. Among others, these provisions include a Reserve override pay in Section 5.E., a minimum 12 hours rest with 8 hours free from contact between assignments in Section 10.D.3. and Section 10.D.1. provides a minimum 11 days off per month. F/As have no obligation to the company for assignments or meetings during those 11 days off.   If a delayed ID works a Reserve into a scheduled day off, contact the crew desk upon arrival to communicate the preference of two options with regard to Reserve days off.  The F/A may elect to remain on Reserve for the rest of that day in exchange for another chosen day off later in the month that, in the opinion of the company, does not create coverage problems or the 1-in-7 legality. At the option of the Reserve, she or he may also elect at the completion of their ID to take the remainder of the day off, and forgo having the day replaced later in the month.  We strongly recommend that you contact the crew desk once you return to domicile to advise of them of your decision for the Reserve day.   If you are on Reserve the last day of the old schedule month, you can receive a multi-day assignment departing on that last day. This is true even if it works you into days off to a minimum of 10 days in your Lineholder month, or causes you to miss, or be illegal for, your first trip as a Lineholder in the new month. Conversely, if you are a Lineholder with a trip that overlaps into a Reserve month, you are considered a Lineholder until the completion of your rest following the conclusion of the assignment from the Lineholder month. In other words, you are not subject to a Reserve assignment directly after returning to base from the Lineholder trip.   Remember that if you are flown into a previously awarded day of PTO (which displays in your line of flying as “WOP,” “GWOP” and/or “DAT”), the F/A on Reserve again has two options. First, you may continue the PTO for the remainder of the awarded period.  Alternately, you may give up the PTO and remain available for Reserve assignment that day or days, subject to any legalities. Electing this option restores your Reserve minimum whether assigned an ID or not. In this case, your personal GWOP or DAT will be restored.

Purser Position, F/A Work Positions & Jumpseat Assignments From E-Lines 01/19/07 (repeat from 9/29/06 issue):   With the addition of new Members, we continue to received questions about the assignment of purser positions. Reserve F/As who are purser qualified should be aware that they may be assigned out of time accrued order to fill open positions requiring a Purser qualification. If the position is still open at briefing, it is filled as specified in Section 9.F.7 of the Contract. Section 9.P.2. of our Contract that provides a F/A must have a minimum of one year of service prior to being assigned the purser position, unless there is no other F/A with at least one year of service working the flight. In this case, the most senior F/A on the crew will assume the position. Once the position is filled it is held by the person assuming it at briefing until she or he leaves the crew, even if she or he has not yet completed one year of service. This means that a F/A who is purser qualified or more senior may not take the position from a non-qualified or more junior F/A who has assumed the purser duties and is mid-sequence of an ID.    Recognizing these Contractual provisions naturally turns us to briefings for the assignment of jumpseats and work positions. Our F/A Operations Manual (FAOM) page 18.40.1 addresses the assignment of jumpseats, which takes place during the pre-flight crew briefing in seniority order. F/As arriving after the briefing will be assigned the next available jumpseat in numerical order. Check your FAOM for a full review of these procedures. NOTE: Assignment of jumpseats does not predetermine work positions, which should be assigned in seniority order of the entire working crew.

Notification of Changes to F/A Schedule August 17, 2007 E-Lines Excerpt: Notification of changes to your schedule must be accomplished in person, through telephone conversations and in limited situations by a notice in your mailbox. F/As in the purser position are not responsible for informing the rest of the crew of a delay or schedule change; these notifications need to be handled by the scheduler. Text messages, ACARS or other non-approved forms of notification are not acceptable. ACARS messages may not communicate reassignment information (such as "go to gate XX" or "go to flight XX") - they may only communicate for F/As to "contact scheduling upon arrival," or other similar message.

Reserve Move-Up (10.B.4 of the Contract): The Company shall make up and/or award such line(s) at each domicile. Reserves who have bid for the lines shall be contacted in seniority order as lines open up. If all the protected day(s) specified by the reserve cannot be accommodated, such reserve will be bypassed and remain on the move-up list in seniority order until such protected day(s) can be provided. A reserve who indicates no protected day(s) off, or whose protected day(s) has been satisfied, must accept such assignment. NOTE:  Excerpt from 10.B: If the Reserve has a vacation or will be on ANP status for seven (7) days or more in the remaining part of the month, she/he will not be moved into a line of flying. This means that you COULD be awarded a Move Up line even if you have more than 7 days of vacation. If the vacation days are early in the schedule month, you may be awarded a line for the REMAINDER of the schedule month.

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