AGREEMENT

RECOGNITION AND SCOPE

3

DEFINITIONS

5

COMPENSATION

9

EXPENSES

12

MOVING EXPENSES

14

SCHEDULING

15

VACANCIES

27

CHECK FLIGHT ATTENDANT

29

SENIORITY

30

TRAINING

31

REDUCTION IN FORCE OR FURLOUGH

33

LEAVES OF ABSENCE

35

PHYSICAL STANDARDS

38

INSURANCE

39

TRANSFER TO MANAGEMENT DUTY

41

MISCELLANEOUS FLYING

42

NOTICES TO FLIGHT ATTENDANTS

43

GRIEVANCES

44

SYSTEM BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT

47

UNION MEMBERSHIP

50

UNIFORMS

51

GENERAL

52

NEW EQUIPMENT

58

HOURS OF SERVICE

59

BASES

62

MISSING, INTERNMENT, HOSTAGE OR PRISONER OF WAR BENEFITS

63

SICK LEAVE

64

VACATIONS

67

DURATION

70

ATTENDANCE POLICY

71

LETTERS OF AGREEMENT

75

Pursuant to the certification by the National Mediation Board in Case No. R-6225 dated January 3, 1994, Chautauqua Airlines (the Company) recognizes the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Airline Division (the Union/IBT), as the duly designated and authorized representative of the Flight Attendants in the employ of the Company for the purposes of the Railway Labor Act, as amended.

The purpose of this Agreement, in the mutual interest of the Company, the Union, and the Flight Attendants, is to provide for the operation of the Company under methods which will further to the fullest extent possible the safety of air transportation, the efficiency of operation, and the continuation of employment of Flight Attendants under conditions of reasonable working conditions and proper compensation, and the profitability of the Company. It is recognized to be the duty of the Company, the Union, and the Flight Attendants to cooperate fully for the attainment of these purposes.

This Agreement supersedes all existing or previously executed agreements by and between the Company and the Union or any other labor organization or individual with respect to the rates of pay, rules, or working conditions specifically covered by the provisions of this Agreement in accordance with the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended. Any and all subsequent agreements between the parties shall be reduced to writing, signed by their authorized representatives, and become a part of this Agreement.

Whenever the words “Flight Attendant" are used in this Agreement, they designate and refer only to Flight Attendant(s) covered by this Agreement. It is further recognized that whenever in this Agreement Flight Attendant(s) are referred to in either the masculine or feminine gender, it shall be understood to mean both male and female Flight Attendants.

In accordance with applicable law, there shall be no discrimination by either party against any Flight Attendant because of age, race, sex, color, religion, union activity, national origin, sexual orientation, handicap or disability that would not prevent them from safely performing the duties of a Flight Attendant.

Scope.

This Agreement covers the Company, any subsidiary of the Company, the Company’s parent, any subsidiary of the Company’s parent and any future airline certificate(s) created as a subsidiary of the Company or subsidiary of the Company’s parent.

Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, all present and future cabin passenger service (including that international cabin service which originates or terminates within the United States or its possessions) including all charters or other utilization of aircraft owned or leased by the Company, the Company’s parent or any subsidiary of the Company or subsidiary of the Company’s parent shall be performed by Flight Attendants on the Chautauqua Airlines Flight Attendants’ System Seniority List in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement or any other applicable agreement between the Company, the Company’s parent or any subsidiary of the Company’s parent and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Airline Division.

The Company, Subsidiary of the Company, the Company’s Parent or Subsidiary of the Parent shall not establish any new airline (alter ego or otherwise) or acquire a controlling interest in any carrier whether directly or through the Parent or another Subsidiary of the Parent, and maintain it as a separate carrier to avoid the terms and conditions of this Agreement. A “Controlling Interest” or “Control” means the ownership of an equity interest representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding capital stock of an entity or voting securities representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the total voting power of outstanding securities then entitled to vote generally in the election of such entity’s board of directors or other governing body.

The Company will not transfer aircraft, routes or operating authority to its Parent, a Subsidiary of the Parent, or to a Subsidiary of the Company for the purpose of evading the terms of this Agreement. The Company will also not establish a third party leasing device to evade the terms of this agreement.

Wet Lease/Dry Lease

No Flight Attendant within the bargaining unit will be reduced in status or lose any income or employee benefits while discussions are taking place.

The Union will not decline to agree to a dry lease when such dry lease is for the sole purpose of leasing out excess aircraft owned or leased by the Company. Such dry lease will not result in the reduction in status or the furlough of any Chautauqua Flight Attendant in cases where the dry lease provides a profit to the Company. At the request of the Union it may review the actual dry lease documents.

Foreign Bases

Furlough Protection

No Flight Attendant on the Chautauqua Flight Attendant Seniority List as of the date of signing of this Agreement shall be furloughed, except as may be otherwise provided in Article 1.I.2., below.

Nothing in this Agreement shall prevent the Company from acquiring, establishing or merging with another air carrier, in accordance with the procedures and safeguards prescribed by this article, provided that the Company will not acquire or establish another air carrier (alter-ego or otherwise) to replace flying performed by the Company or to avoid the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

Successors

This Agreement shall be binding upon any successor including, but not limited to, any merged company or companies, purchaser, assign, assignee, transferee, administrator, receiver, executor and/or trustee (hereinafter “successor”), of the Company which acquires ownership and/or control of all or substantially all of the equity securities and/or assets of the Company (a “Successor Transaction”). For the purpose of this paragraph, a successor or assign shall be defined as an entity which acquires all or substantially all of the assets or equity of the Company through a single transaction or a multi-step related transaction which closes within a twelve (12) month period. The Company agrees to give written notice of the terms of this Agreement to a proposed successor before concluding any Successor Transaction.

In the event of a Successor Transaction, as defined in paragraph K.1., above, the following provisions shall apply regardless of whether one or more than one carrier survives the transaction or whether formerly separate operations are to be integrated:

Unless and until any operational merger is finally effectuated, the Company and/or the successor shall continue to recognize the Union as the representative of the pre-transaction Company Flight Attendants, so long as such recognition is consistent with the Railway Labor Act and any applicable rulings or orders of the National Mediation Board.

Subject to applicable securities and other laws and regulations, the Company shall review with the Union the details of any material agreements relating to a Successor Transaction in a timely manner, provided that no financial or other confidential business information need be disclosed unless suitable arrangements are made for protecting the confidentiality and use of such information.

The Company, or the successor if different from the Company, shall continue to employ the Flight Attendants on the Chautauqua Flight Attendant System Seniority List, including any such Flight Attendants on leave or furlough status at the time of the Successor Transaction, subject to the terms of this Agreement.

Where formerly separate operations eventually are to be integrated, the Flight Attendant groups shall be kept separate until their seniority lists are integrated in accordance with the requirements of this Section. During such time of separate operations, neither aircraft nor Flight Attendants shall be interchanged without the Union’s written consent.

So long as the Flight Attendant groups remain separate, the rates of pay, rules and working conditions set forth in this Agreement shall be observed with respect to the Flight Attendants whose names appear on the Chautauqua Flight Attendant System Seniority List.

Labor Protective Provisions

Any grievance arising under this Article 1 shall be arbitrated on an expedited basis directly before the System Board of Adjustment pursuant to Article 19 of the Agreement and the following provisions. If a mutually agreed upon arbitrator cannot be selected within three (3) days of the submission to the System Board, an arbitrator will be selected pursuant to Article 19 of this Agreement, with selection to be completed within three (3) days of receipt of a list of proposed arbitrators. The dispute shall be heard no later than sixty (60) days following the submission to the System Board (subject to the availability of the arbitrator), and shall be decided no later than thirty (30) days following conclusion of the hearing. The time limits set forth in this paragraph may be extended only by written Agreement of the Company and the Union.

Pay Scale

Flight Attendants will be paid for flight time based on status and longevity in accordance with the hourly rates below. In computing hours for pay purposes, the actual time flown or the scheduled block time, whichever is greater, will be used.

$

16.00

$

16.40

$

16.81

$

17.15

$

17.49

$

17.00

$

17.43

$

17.86

$

18.22

$

18.58

$

18.02

$

18.47

$

18.93

$

19.31

$

19.70

$

19.31

$

19.79

$

20.29

$

20.69

$

21.11

$

20.49

$

21.00

$

21.53

$

21.96

$

22.40

$

21.69

$

22.23

$

22.79

$

23.24

$

23.71

$

22.85

$

23.42

$

24.01

$

24.49

$

24.98

$

24.05

$

24.65

$

25.27

$

25.77

$

26.29

$

24.41

$

25.02

$

25.65

$

26.16

$

26.68

$

25.12

$

25.75

$

26.39

$

26.92

$

27.46

$

25.85

$

26.50

$

27.16

$

27.70

$

28.26

$

26.75

$

27.42

$

28.10

$

28.67

$

29.24

$

27.70

$

28.39

$

29.10

$

29.68

$

30.28

$

28.12

$

28.82

$

29.54

$

30.13

$

30.74

$

28.52

$

29.23

$

29.96

$

30.56

$

31.17

$

30.25

$

31.01

$

31.78

$

32.42

$

33.07

Monthly Guarantee

A Flight Attendant who is available for duty for the full month will be guaranteed a minimum of seventy-five (75) hours of flight pay per month thereafter, except as otherwise provided in this Agreement.

A Flight Attendant who is unavailable for part of a month will have her guarantee prorated (except for paid vacation or paid sick leave).

New-hire Flight Attendants will be entitled to the monthly guarantee as provided in 1. and 2. above, upon completion of IOE. 

Line Guarantee

Rescheduling

Deadhead Pay

Customs Pay

Check Flight Attendant Pay

Pay Procedures

Flight Attendants will be paid on a semi-monthly basis, i.e., twenty-four (24) pay periods per year.

Flight Attendants will be paid on the fifteenth (15th) and the last day of each month. If the fifteenth (15th) or the last day of each month falls on a Saturday or Sunday, Flight Attendants will be paid on the preceding Friday. If the 15 ^th or the last day of the month should fall on a holiday the paycheck will be available on the work day immediately preceding the holiday. The paycheck on the fifteenth (15th) of the month will include any adjustments for any additional amounts owed the Flight Attendant from the previous month.

A Flight Attendant will be paid, at her option, by direct deposit into an account for that Flight Attendant at a financial institution of the Flight Attendant’s choice.

The Company may choose to send the Flight Attendant her semi-monthly pay information over the Company’s secure email system.

Longevity increases will be paid as follows: The current month’s guarantee will be pro-rated from the actual longevity date as defined in Article 9 (Seniority). All pay over guarantee for the month that the longevity anniversary occurs in will be included in the paycheck on the 15th of the following month at the new rate.

Clerical pay errors involving fifty ($50.00) dollars or more shall be reconciled within five (5) working days after it is first brought to the company’s attention. Errors of less than fifty ($50.00) dollars will be reconciled in the next issued paycheck.

When there is an overpayment to a Flight Attendant, the Company will notify the affected employee, provide documentation and substantiation of the overpayment and arrange a mutually agreeable repayment schedule. The Company may require the employee to authorize the Company to deduct repayment from her subsequent check(s). The maximum amount that can be deducted from each pay period shall be $50.00, unless the amount of overpayment exceeds $500.00, in which case the repayment amount will not be more than 20% of the original overpayment amount per pay period. An employee and the Company may agree to different repayment terms.

Value of a Reserve Day

A reserve Flight Attendant called into work will be credited four (4) hours towards her minimum monthly guarantee or the value of the assignment, whichever is greater.

A hot reserve Flight Attendant will be credited five (5) hours towards her minimum monthly guarantee or the value of the assignment, whichever is greater.

Training Pay

A Flight Attendant who attends a day of recurrent training will be paid four hours (4) flight pay for up to six (6) days in any calendar year.

If the Company elects to use any method of training such as “home study” to comply with FAA requirements, a Flight Attendant will be paid and credited with one (1) hour of flight pay for every two (2) hours of FAA-approved training credit earned in home study.

A Flight Attendant in training will be paid no less than the minimum monthly guarantee.

Flight Attendants receiving Line Checks and Operating Experience will be paid in accordance with this Article 3.A.

Segment Times

For the purposes of this Article, scheduled block (segment) times will be determined using the average of historic en-route (block-to-block) times between city pairs by type of equipment and as attached hereto as Appendix A.

Scheduled block times will be reviewed by a joint Company/Union Scheduling Committee every six (6) months using the prior twelve (12) months to determine whether any adjustments are to be made.

When a new route is established for which no segment time has been computed in accordance with this section, the initial segment time will be established based upon the marketing time for that segment. After one hundred twenty (120) days of operation, the scheduled block time will be reviewed.

Non-scheduled flights on routes where no established scheduled block time exists will be credited on the basis of actual (block-to-block) flight time.

“Attempts,”“Ferries” and “Diverted” flights will be paid on the basis of actual (block-to-block) flight time. Taxi time not associated with a flight will be credited at the rate of two-tenths (0.2) hours of flight pay.

Data necessary for an accurate and complete review of segment times will be made available to the Company/Union Scheduling Committee. After the Union representatives have had an opportunity to review the data, the Company will meet with those representatives upon request, at a mutually agreeable time, to resolve any questions or disputes. Members of the Company/Union Scheduling Committee will not disclose any confidential or proprietary information provided pursuant to this paragraph.

A Flight Attendant will not be called in for drug testing on a scheduled day off. If drug testing occurs at the end of a trip pairing, the Flight Attendant will be compensated at a rate of ten dollars ($10.00) per hour, or fraction thereof, prorated for all hours on duty after block in plus fifteen (15) minutes after her last flight segment. If the Flight Attendant is taken to an off-site facility for the drug test, the Flight Attendant will be compensated one (1) hour of flight pay above her guarantee.

Early Report Time

Holiday Pay

Third Year Anniversary Bonus

Accommodations

The Company and the Union will designate comfortable and adequate single occupancy lodging at all overnight stations (including continuous duty overnights), while a Flight Attendant is in training away from her base, or on temporary duty assignments. The Company will pay the cost of such rooms/lodging. The Company will request rooms on the second floor or higher, with access to the room(s) available through interior hallways only.

The Company will request that a hotel that provides a free continental breakfast do so between the hours of 0500-0800.

The Company will provide the Union Hotel Committee Chairman written notice within a reasonable time when it is considering an alternate or new hotel. The Union Hotel Committee will provide the Company with its comments and recommendations on any proposed changes. The Union Committee may also make recommendations to the Company at any time on current hotels.

The Company will make prompt inquiries into complaints related to deterioration of service, safety or cleanliness at any facility that has been approved for layovers. Prompt remedial action will be taken in those cases where investigation affirms a deterioration of the above conditions.

In designating layover accommodations, the Company will select hotels with normal driving time from the airport not to exceed fifteen (15) minutes, consistent with cost considerations.

The Company will provide adequate single occupancy hotel accommodations whenever a Flight Attendant has a scheduled layover of five (5) or more hours scheduled block-in to scheduled block-out.

Transportation

The Company will provide transportation between the airport and the lodging facility. If there is no suitable eating facility at the hotel or within reasonable walking distance (taking into account environmental conditions), transportation will be provided to a restaurant. If the usual transportation from the airport to a hotel is not available within thirty (30) minutes following block-in, the Company will reimburse a Flight Attendant for cab fare to the hotel. A Flight Attendant using a taxi pursuant to this paragraph must contact Crew Scheduling prior to calling for the taxi to advise them of the circumstances. The Flight Attendant must provide the Company with a receipt when she files for reimbursement. Only one taxi per flight crew will be provided in these circumstances.

When a Flight Attendant agrees to drive her personal vehicle at the request of the Company, she will be reimbursed at the current Company mileage rate or $.36 per mile point to point and return, whichever is greater. A Flight Attendant will not be required to drive her personal vehicle.

The Company will provide travel on a booked basis when a Flight Attendant is deadheading on-line to/from the Flight Attendant’s base and the point of her assigned duty. If the Flight Attendant is bumped from such flight, the Company will book the Flight Attendant on a positive space/must ride basis on the next available on-line flight.

General

The Company will pay any fee associated with local and /or toll free calls made from a layover hotel.

When, due to irregular operations, special assignments, etc., a Flight Attendant incurs lodging or transportation expenses, she will be reimbursed upon presentation of receipts for such expenses, provided she requests and receives advance approval for such expenses.

At base or another location of the Flight Attendant’s choice where free parking is not available, the Company will pay for the cost of parking while the Flight Attendant is performing duty. The Company will not be required to pay for parking at more than one (1) location per Flight Attendant, Co-Terminal operations notwithstanding.

Paying for parking at a location other than the Flight Attendant’s base shall be required only when such employee parking is available and only to the extent of what the parking would have cost at the Flight Attendant’s base.

The Company will reimburse each Flight Attendant for the cost of passports and visas. The Company shall also reimburse the Flight Attendant for any airport government charges incurred in traveling on Company business.

Co-Terminal Bases

A Co-Terminal Base is defined as a base that contains more than one airport to which Flight Attendant may be assigned duty. (e.g. John F. Kennedy/LaGuardia/Newark, Dulles/Washington National/Baltimore, etc.) In the event the Company chooses to establish Co-Terminal Bases the following terms shall apply:

The Company will make every reasonable effort to schedule a Flight Attendant to begin and end a trip at the same airport. In the event a Flight Attendant finishes a trip at a different airport from the airport at which the trip originated, the Company will provide ground transportation to the originating airport. Such transportation between co-terminals will be considered deadhead. Upon conclusion of the discussions provided for in e. below an appendix for travel time between co-terminal airports will be published.

The Flight Attendant’s duty time will end upon return to the originating airport.

The Company shall be responsible to ensure that the Flight Attendant does not incur parking expenses in a co-terminal base that would not be incurred if she were based in a single-airport base.

At least 60 days prior to opening any co-terminal base, the Company will notify the Union and meet to discuss the operation. The parties may agree to other or different conditions applicable to a specific co-terminal operation.

Lodging and Per Diem for New Hires

Eligibility

Moving Benefits

Actual moving expenses for a professional mover, including packing materials, shipping and insurance, of household goods and effects up to a total weight of 10,000 lbs. Packing, unpacking, extra insurance and storage are not covered. The mover must be approved by the Company.

The Company will reimburse a Flight Attendant at the current Company mileage rate or $.36 per mile, whichever is greater, for up to two (2) of the Flight Attendant’s registered vehicles driven to the new domicile, using the most direct mileage between domiciles. One car may be moved prior to the move of the primary residence, and the other (or both) cars would be moved in conjunction with the actual move.

The Company will reimburse a Flight Attendant for meals and lodging for the Flight Attendant and her immediate family for the time required to travel to the domicile up to five days. A Flight Attendant will be removed from trips and pay protected for the trips missed which conflict with the time allowed for travel. A day of travel shall be considered a minimum of three hundred fifty (350) miles by the most direct AAA mileage. The daily allowance for meals shall be $25.00 per day for the Flight Attendant, $25.00 per day for the spouse traveling with the Flight Attendant, and $15.00 per day for each dependent traveling with the Flight Attendant.

The Company will pay up to two hundred dollars ($200.00) for termination and hook-up of gas and electric utilities, telephone and cable television (excluding deposits) resulting from a move to a new domicile.

If a lease is broken as a result of moving to a new domicile, and a penalty is incurred, the Company will pay the penalty, not to exceed two (2) months rent.

If immediate occupancy of the new residence is impracticable because of time constraints imposed by the Company, the Company will pay meal and lodging expenses (consistent with paragraph B. above) for up to seven (7) days. The Flight Attendant will make every effort to minimize this expense. If the moving company reimburses the Flight Attendant for these expenses, the Company will have no obligation to make any additional payment.

The Company’s liability for moving expenses under this Article shall not exceed seven thousand dollars ($7,000). Payment for cost of moving household goods shall be paid directly from the Company to the moving vendor. All other eligible benefits set forth in this Article shall be paid to the Flight Attendant as per B. of this Article.

Moving Days

General

If a Flight Attendant elects not to move, the Company will pay the Flight Attendant two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00), which need not be verified by receipts.

When the Company is required to pay moving expenses, nothing in this Article is intended to prevent the Company and the Flight Attendant from agreeing to an amount to be paid to the Flight Attendant in lieu of the expenses set forth in this Article.

When the Company is required to pay moving expenses, the move must be coordinated with the Inflight Department. Moving expenses should be submitted within thirty (30) days after incurring the expenses. Receipts must verify all moving expenses. The Company will not be liable for any damages incurred during moving.

The Company will not be responsible for paying any expenses incurred under this Article after one (1) year from the actual effective date of the Flight Attendant’s assignment to the new domicile.

If a Flight Attendant elects to move herself, the rental truck and/or trailer, packing materials, insurance, fuel, and two hundred dollars ($200.00) to offset other costs not included in this paragraph, will be paid to the Flight Attendant.

A Flight Attendant who is eligible for Company paid moving expenses may elect to have her move paid from a location other than the domicile from which the Flight Attendant is being transferred. However, the Company's financial responsibility will not exceed the cost of moving the Flight Attendant from the domicile from which she transferred to her new domicile.

Staffing

Bidding and Awarding of Monthly Schedules

Eligibility to Bid

A Flight Attendant who will be available to work during any part of the month will be allowed to bid during the bidding process, and will be awarded a schedule for that portion of the month which she will be available.

A Flight Attendant must bid on an approved format submitted to Crew Planning/Scheduling. A Flight Attendant will use the electronic bid system set up by the Company unless an alternative method has been approved by the Company.

Bid packages will be made electronically available via a home access computer system and the Company computer terminals located in each Base on or before the date of bid package distribution.

Bidding time line:

Bid packages will be made available to all Flight Attendants at each base at or before 1200 hours on or before the 13th of the month prior to the bid period.

A Flight Attendant must submit her bid by 1200 hours on or before the 17th of the month prior to the bid period.

The bid award will be made available to all Flight Attendants by 1200 hours on or before the 20th of the month prior to the bid period.

A Flight Attendant failing to make a bid or failing to meet the deadline will be assigned a line in the awards as per her default bid.

The PBS System will generate, track, and provide each Flight Attendant a unique receipt for each bid supplied by the Flight Attendant.

All eligible Flight Attendants may bid for lines at their Base. All bids shall be awarded in accordance with seniority. Awards will be published and made available to all eligible bidders in each Base, either electronically or hard copy, or both.

The Company shall make only the necessary adjustments to awarded lines to correct errors and to ensure minimum days free from duty.

          a. Flight Attendants will bid utilizing the preferential bidding system.

Pairing Construction

The parties will meet and confer quarterly or at such other times as mutually agreed upon to review criteria for the construction of pairings to be used in the scheduling of Flight Attendants and may jointly agree to modify the criteria from time to time. The objectives for the construction of pairings will be to:

Maximize the Flight Attendant’s flight time during a given duty period.

Ensure the ability to carry out the marketing schedule while maintaining on-time performance and schedule completion.

Maintain a mix of pairing types, e.g. 1-day, 2-day, 3-day, 4- day or 5-day trips.

Ensure stability and continuity from one bid period to the next.

Contents of the Bid Package

The bid package for each Base will contain the following information:

All known flying arranged in trip pairings including the following schedule information. The Company may withhold up to five percent (5%) of known flying.

Report and release times.

Flight number.

Block and credit time of the pairing.

Ground time.

Originating, intermediate, and terminating station.

Minimum required rest.

Aircraft type (e.g., EM3,EM4,EM5).

A list of Flight Attendants eligible to bid in each Base (bid eligibility list).

Awarded or assigned temporary vacancies.

An anticipated number of Regular lines.

An anticipated number of Composite/Reserve lines.

The number of GLT lines.

Check Flight Attendants.

Reserve windows (defined twelve (12) hour callout blocks).

Known training assignments including applicable credit. Training dates will be published two (2) months prior to training date and awarded one (1) month prior to scheduled training date.

A list of Flight Attendants who are due for recurrent.

All awarded and available vacation time.

Following distribution, the Scheduling Committee may review the bid packages for each Base. The review of a bid package will be completed within twenty-four (24) hours of its distribution.

When an error or violation is found that would affect a PBS award, the Company will reissue the affected bid package if necessary and may adjust the time and dates for bidding, awarding, review and distribution required for the correction.

Line Construction - Preferential Bidding System

The following procedures will precede line construction:

The Company will apply any known absence to a Flight Attendant’s schedule. The virtual credit value of the known absence(s) will be reflected in the total value of the line for purposes of the line building parameters according to F.3 below.

The following virtual credits will apply to absences that are known prior to the close of bids:

If a Flight Attendant is withheld from service by the Company at the time of bid closing she will bid for a schedule for the following bid period in accordance with this section.

When awarded in a line, recurrent ground training, recurrent check rides, or any Company business, will not reduce a Flight Attendant’s days off to less than the scheduled minimum as set forth in Article 24 (Hours of Service).

No later than forty-eight (48) hours prior to the closing of each bid period, the Company will make available to the Scheduling Committee the bid eligibility list including known absences.

If the Scheduling Committee discovers an error or a violation of the Agreement in the bid eligibility list before the bids have been awarded, the committee will notify the Company as soon as practical. Prior to awarding the bids, the Company will correct any error or violation that would affect the accuracy of the PBS award.

Prior to awarding the bids for specific equipment and position, the Company will correct any error or violation that it discovers in the bid eligibility list that would affect the accuracy of the PBS award.

Each Flight Attendant’s schedule will be constructed by the Company utilizing the PBS. The PBS will determine the number of Regular lines to be constructed. Until the PBS is capable of constructing CDO lines, Composite lines and/or Reserve lines that comply with this Agreement, the Company will manually construct such lines. All Regular lines, CDO lines, Composite lines, and Reserve lines will be awarded and/or assigned in accordance with a Flight Attendant’s seniority, bid preferences and this Agreement.

As many Regular lines as practicable containing no less than 75 credit hours, and no more than 92 credit hours (100 credit hours upon PBS implementation of i.) below) which include:

The Company and the Union will jointly work with the PBS vendor to develop and implement options to create Regular lines to allow for Low Time Schedules (LoSked), Average Line (AveLine) and High Time Schedules (HiSked). 

A Regular line holder will not be assigned charters or reserve days unless the line holder bids for each respectively.

Regular lines will not contain out of Base trips.

All lines will have no less than the minimum days off in Base as provided for in Article 24 (Hours of Service)

Guaranteed Low Time Lines

Guaranteed Low Time (GLT) Holder is defined as a Flight Attendant who shall bid for a line that consists of no less than thirty-seven and a half (37.5) credit hours and no more than 52 credit hours. When a Flight Attendant is awarded a GLT line, her guarantee will be thirty-seven and a half (37.5) credit hours.

The Company and the Union will continue to work with the PBS vendor to achieve automation of administration of GLT lines. Until the PBS system is capable of generating GLT lines, the current job share program shall remain in effect.

A designated GLT Flight Attendant’s monthly schedule will be awarded by the PBS system in seniority order within base, from her bid submitted monthly or if no bid was submitted a line will be awarded based on her default bid.

A Flight Attendant desiring to remove herself from the list of GLT Flight Attendants must give written notice to her Inflight Supervisor before the end of the second month prior to the month in which the removal is to be effective (e.g. no later than May 31 for removal from GLT for July).

The number of designated GLT Flight Attendants will not exceed 10% of the total workforce and may not exceed 20% of the total Flight Attendants in a given base.

A Flight Attendant granted GLT status must remain in such status for a minimum of six (6) months.

GLT Flight Attendants will accrue their Sick/Vacation time at one-half (½) the normal rate.

Current Job Share Holders will be Grand-fathered into the Program.

GLT holders shall be limited to trading and picking up of open time pairings such that they shall not exceed sixty (60) hours per month, unless there are insufficient reserves or volunteers to cover available open time. The Company will notify the Union of any situation that requires allowing GLT holders to exceed 60 hours.

See Letter of Agreement #4 for GLT selection process and benefits.

A Reserve line will contain:

Reserve days and at least the minimum days off as provided for in Article 24 (Hours of Service),

In Base reserve days,

Out of Base reserve days and associated deadhead, if applicable, in accordance with this Article,

Type of reserve (i.e. Reserve call out periods in 12 hour blocks).

Regular reserve days will be credited at four (4) hours flight credit toward the PBS minimum window for each day of regular reserve.

The Company will determine the need for reserves as provided for in this Article for each day of the bid period. Reserve lines will then be constructed using the bid preferences of the Flight Attendant.

When the Committee reviews the lines, the Company will:

Release from schedule up to two (2) members of the Committee.

Release from schedule additional members of the committee if the Company and the Union determines they are required, and provided there is adequate reserve coverage.

Cover Flight Pay loss for the designated Committee members, which will be considered Union Leave and will be reimbursed to the Company by the Union as per Article 12 (Leaves of Absence).

A member of the Committee who reviews the lines on a day off will have the option to receive flight pay equal to five (5) hours above guarantee, which will be considered Union Leave and will be reimbursed by the Union as per Article 12 (Leaves of Absence).

The Committee will promptly notify the Company if it discovers an error or violation of the Agreement in the lines. The Company will conduct a re-run of the bid award if a Regular, Composite or CDO line does not comply with the Agreement or contains an error resulting from a discrepancy in the bid eligibility list, a computer or software (PBS) malfunction or an omission of a known absence or activity. Any error or violation of the Agreement in a reserve line for a category will be corrected prior to distribution of the bid award for that category.

If the Company conducts a re-run of the lines, the committee will expedite any additional review necessary to complete the process.

The Union’s Scheduling Committee will notify the Company immediately if it does not wish to review the lines.

Following distribution of the bid award, the Company may displace a Flight Attendant from her awarded or assigned pairing for the purpose of completing another Flight Attendant’s OE. The displaced Flight Attendant will either be released from duty for the remainder of the day or reassigned to a trip scheduled to end within her original trip hour period. The Flight Attendant will be credited with the greater of the value of the trip originally assigned or the trip to which she was reassigned, if any.

If more than one (1) Flight Attendant is assigned to the same trip, the senior Flight Attendant will have the choice of flying the trip or not. The Flight Attendant not flying the trip will either be reassigned to a trip, during the days spanning the original trip, or released from duty for the remainder of the day and will be credited with the greater of the value of the trip originally assigned or the trip to which she is reassigned, if any. 

A Flight Attendant who has been displaced from a trip pairing shall contact crew scheduling for assignment after 1700 base time on the day before each day of the trip from which displaced. (Agreed 6-1-04)

If the Flight Attendant was originally assigned an out and back trip pairing or if it is the first day of a multi day trip, Crew Scheduling may reassign a trip according to the following:

If the original report time was before 1000, then Crew Scheduling may reassign a trip pairing that starts at the original report time or later.

If the original report time was after 1000, then Crew Scheduling may reassign a trip pairing that starts no earlier than two (2) hours before the original report time, but no earlier than 1000.

On subsequent days of a multi-day trip pairing, a Flight Attendant will not be reassigned a trip starting earlier than 1000 unless given the assignment two (2) nights prior to the assignment without concurrence of the Flight Attendant.

The reassignment will end no later than the originally assigned trip pairing without the Flight Attendant’s consent.

Posting and Assigning of Open Time

The Company will post all open time by base, after the final bid award, and update the post on a continuous real time basis.

Open time that becomes available during the bid period shall include but not be limited to; pairings or portions thereof dropped because of illness or injury, vacations, leaves of absence, training, charters, extra sections, other revenue flying, trips dropped for personal reasons or those pairings the PBS is unable to award or assign in the line construction process.

All open time not awarded or assigned that becomes available after the bids are awarded or assigned will be picked up in the following order, provided that such assignment shall not conflict with the FAR or any other provision of this Agreement:, provided, however, that open time may be assigned to an in-base reserve at any time.

Awarded to any Flight Attendant in the Base where the Open time exists, on a first-come, first-served basis, who volunteers for the open time assignment at least forty-eight (48) hours in advance of the scheduled show time. This will not restrict Scheduling from awarding open time within forty eight (48) hours of the scheduled show time; then;

Awarded to any other Flight Attendant from another base, on a first come, first served basis, who volunteered for open time at least forty-eight (48) hours in advance of the scheduled show time. This will not restrict Scheduling from awarding open time within forty- eight (48) hours of the scheduled show time. The Out of Base Flight Attendant is responsible for getting to the assignment and back home from the assignment, then;

Assigned to a reserve Flight Attendant from another base (this step may be skipped); then

Assigned to a supervisory Flight Attendant, if no other Flight Attendant is available for such assignment without delaying or canceling the flight.

Open Time, Drops, Adds and Offers.

The Company and the Union will continue to meet with the PBS vendor in developing and implementing an automated Trip trading / dropping / adding/offering system.

Drops

Trip drop(s) that are submitted seven (7) days or more prior to the date of the earliest proposed drop will be approved or denied at least forty-eight (48) hours prior to the report time for the earliest trip being dropped.

Trip drop(s) that are submitted less than seven (7) days prior to the date of the earliest proposed drop will be approved or denied no later than twenty-four (24) hours before the report time for the earliest trip being dropped.

Adds

Offers

A Flight Attendant who Drops, Offers or Adds will have her guarantee adjusted either up or down to reflect the addition or reduction of flight time as provided in Article 3 (Compensation) of this Agreement.

Requests for Drops, Adds or Offers may be made verbally over a recorded line, electronically, in writing, or by any other means mutually agreed upon by the Company and the Union.

Mutual Trade Procedures

A Flight Attendant may participate in up to 7 trades each month.

Trip trade requests may be for a partial or an entire trip.

A Flight Attendant who has requested a trade will remain responsible for her original assignment until she has been notified that the trade or drop has been approved.

Mutual trip trade requests may be submitted in writing (signed by both Flight Attendants), verbally over a recorded line with all parties involved agreeing to the trade, via the internet, or through any other means implemented in the future with the mutual agreement of the Company and the Union.

Trip trades submitted to Crew Planning/Scheduling should be submitted no less than forty-eight (48) hours prior to the date of the earliest proposed mutual trade. Crew Planning/Scheduling or the participating Flight Attendants may waive the forty-eight (48) hour requirement.

Trip trades must not violate any FAR or any section of this Agreement. Crew Planning/Scheduling may require up to a ninety (90) minute buffer when there is a potential for illegality under the FAR or this Agreement. If a trade is not approved, the Flight Attendant will be advised of the non-approval and the reasons for the denial.

A Flight Attendant who loses time from her schedule because of a trip trade or drop will have her guarantee adjusted as provided in Article 3 (Compensation) of this Agreement.

Notification on Layover

The Company may attempt direct contact with a Flight Attendant during a layover subject to the following conditions:

Any time during the layover in the case of a personal or family emergency affecting the Flight Attendant.

Within one (1) hour after block in time or one (1) hour before scheduled show time for notification of a change in show or schedule or to avoid a FAR violation.

Unless provided for in 1 above, the Company may NOT directly contact a Flight Attendant during any layover that is less than nine (9) hours. The Company may attempt to make indirect contact with the Flight Attendant through means of hotel resources (such as, but not limited to, having the desk activate the phone message light, a hand written note under the door, message at the front desk).

Should a Flight Attendant be directly contacted during a layover outside of the limitations set forth in this paragraph, with the notable exception of a personal or family emergency affecting the Flight Attendant, the Flight Attendant’s minimum rest will be extended by 30 minutes. The Flight Attendant may waive this requirement.

Modifications, Reschedules

A modification/reschedule is any change to a pairing after its first distribution as a final bid award. The Company may modify a pairing in order to meet operational necessity within the original trip hour period.

Unless the Flight Attendant consents and/or other mutually agreed upon arrangements are made between the Flight Attendant and Crew Planning/Scheduling, a Flight Attendant’s pairing will not be modified to extend the pairing into any of her days off for any reason except for circumstances beyond the control of the Company (e.g. weather, mechanical).

All rescheduling will be in accordance with and subject to all other applicable provisions of this Agreement.

A Flight Attendant holding a reserve line who has received a trip assignment may be rescheduled within the limitations of Articles 6 and 24 (Scheduling/Hours of Service).

After the publication of the final bid award, a Flight Attendant holding a Regular or Composite line may be rescheduled within the limitations of Articles 6 and 24 (Scheduling/Hours of Service).

When a Flight Attendant is rescheduled prior to the date on which a pairing (i.e. flight, ferry, training or deadhead assignment) is scheduled to commence, the following will apply:

When the Company notifies a line holder of a reschedule, the notification will be in a timely and appropriate manner.

The Flight Attendant will not be given an assignment that is scheduled to operate earlier than the scheduled report time of her original pairing without the consent of the Flight Attendant unless the original scheduled report time was after 1000, in which case she may be assigned to report earlier than the original report time, but no earlier than 1000.

The Flight Attendant will not be given an assignment with a scheduled release time more than two (2) hours later than the original scheduled release time, without the Flight Attendant’s consent. On a multiple day pairing, the release time will be considered to be the scheduled release time on the last day of the originally scheduled assignment.

When a Flight Attendant is rescheduled on the same day on which a flight or deadhead assignment is scheduled to operate, the Company will notify the Flight Attendant and, at its option:

Direct her to remain on rest if she has not reported for duty;

Assign her to complete any remaining flight segment(s) in the pairing;

Assign her to remain available for repositioning of the crew and/or aircraft;

Assign her to another pairing with a scheduled release time no more than 2 hours later than the scheduled release time on the last day of her original pairing;

Assign her to remain “airport available” up to two (2) hours following notification of rescheduling. While “airport available” the Flight Attendant will remain readily available for any flight or deadhead assignment with a scheduled release time no more than two (2) hours later than the scheduled release time of her original scheduled pairing. If the Flight Attendant has not been assigned after two (2) hours of “airport available”, she is released.

Release her from all duty. Once released, she will not be required to remain telephone available for the duration of the original pairing. For a multi-day pairing, the Flight Attendant shall contact Crew Scheduling after 1700 hours the day preceding each remaining day of the original pairing. If there is no assignment she will be released for the following day.

Provided the Flight Attendant supplies crew scheduling with contact information while on a trip, notification of a modification or rescheduling of the Flight Attendant’s assignment will be by direct contact between Scheduling/Planning and the affected Flight Attendant.

In the event of an equipment substitution of a single Flight Attendant aircraft for an aircraft scheduled with two Flight Attendants (e.g. EMB 170- EMB 145, etc.), the senior Flight Attendant will have the option of working the modified pairing or becoming subject to reassignment in accordance with L. below. The junior Flight Attendant will then either work the modified pairing or be subject to reassignment in accordance with L. below.

A Flight Attendant holding a Regular line who becomes subject to rescheduling shall not be placed on reserve. Rescheduling must be within the limitations of Articles 6 and 24. A Flight Attendant scheduled for a single day trip will not be rescheduled for a multi-day trip. A Flight Attendant subject to be rescheduled pursuant to this section will be paid the greater of her actual or rescheduled trip, if any. A Flight Attendant who voluntarily “Adds” trips from Open Time, and whose trips are subsequently canceled will not be required to be available on the same day(s) of her trip, nor will she be pay protected for the trip.

Reserve Duty

General

When the Company has a flight assignment to cover, Crew Scheduling will call reserve Flight Attendants in reverse order of seniority as long as all other factors are equal and taking into account operational requirements for the base (e.g., a senior Flight Attendant on reserve is available for two (2) days and a junior Flight Attendant is available for four (4) days. A two (2) day trip is open. The senior Flight Attendant could be assigned if the Company felt it was in its best interest. If both Flight Attendants were available for two (2) days and all other factors were equal, the junior Flight Attendant will be called first).

Reserve periods with twelve (12) hour callout periods, will be designated by the Company and published in the bid package to be bid on by the Flight Attendant group. The Company will establish the number and start time of the reserve periods. Each reserve period will begin and end in the same day.

Preferences in the bidding for reserve periods will be awarded in seniority order from among Flight Attendants indicating a preference in the respective Base.

A reserve Flight Attendant will not be required to be available during more than one (1) reserve period in any day. A Flight Attendant on reserve will not be scheduled to be on call in excess of twelve (12) hours in a day. A Flight Attendant on reserve shall not be assigned to a flight assignment that is scheduled to exceed fourteen (14) hours.

A reserve Flight Attendant will not be rescheduled from an awarded reserve period/type to another reserve period/type without at least 18 hours prior notice from the start of the old or new reserve period whichever is earlier.

A reserve Flight Attendant will not be required to be available on a day off or during a rest period, but will be required to be available during her reserve periods.

A reserve Flight Attendant will not be required to start a callout period with less than the minimum rest required by Article 24 (Hours of Service).

For the purposes of calculating days off, a reserve day will be considered a day of work. The Company will not move days off once awarded. A Flight Attendant on reserve who is assigned a RON that extends into a day off will be given the option of receiving day off pay pursuant to Article 3, or having that day off restored in the current or following month. The Company will not make such assignment if there is another reserve available in the Base, and calling out such reserve will not delay the flight.

The Company will make an assignment to an available reserve Flight Attendant as far in advance as practicable. The assignment, when given for the same day, must be scheduled to commence no later than 2 hours after the end of the Flight Attendant’s reserve period.

Reserve and Composite lines will be built to provide coverage for the Company’s anticipated needs and will also include the type(s) and time of the reserve period.

A Flight Attendant assigned to sit reserve in another Base will be paid per diem and will be provided with hotel accommodations for multi-day reserve assignments or a single day assignment to sit reserve for more than 5 hours. Multi-day out-of-Base reserve assignments will not exceed four consecutive days from report to release at her permanent Base.

A Flight Attendant on reserve who is assigned a trip pairing if removed from the assignment or upon completion of her assignment will either be given another assignment commencing within the reserve period or remain on call in accordance with the following table:

0 to 59 minutes

                                                               10 +

Upon completion of a trip assignment a reserve Flight Attendant shall contact scheduling prior to leaving the Base.

When a reserve Flight Attendant is given an assignment for a future date, her duty time for pay and rest will commence at the scheduled report time of the assignment. When a Flight Attendant is given an assignment for the same day, her duty time for rest calculation will commence at the time she is notified of the assignment, and pay shall commence at report time.

The Company may, in its discretion, release a Flight Attendant from a reserve period earlier than originally scheduled. A Flight Attendant on the last day of a reserve sequence may call Crew Planning/Scheduling up to four (4) hours before the reserve shift ends and request early release. If adequate reserve coverage is available, Crew Planning/Scheduling will release the Flight Attendant without penalty to her compensation.

A reserve period will consist of a twelve (12) hour, same-day callout period. The Flight Attendant will be responsible for maintaining her availability during this period to cover potential assignments from Crew Planning/Scheduling.

A reserve Flight Attendant will respond within twenty (20) minutes of first contact from Crew Scheduling. Once a Flight Attendant receives notification of an assignment, she is no longer responsible to be available for contact prior to such assignment until report time.

A reserve Flight Attendant will be subject to a one and one-half (1.5) hour call out unless assigned to a Base where a shorter call out time has been mutually agreed upon by the Company and the Union. A Flight Attendant will make every effort to report earlier. If a Base covers multiple airports a callout time will be mutually agreed upon by the Company and the Union.

A Flight Attendant on reserve may use a “pager” at her expense. However, the Flight Attendant is solely responsible for ensuring the quality of service of the pager, and any malfunction of a pager is solely the responsibility of the Flight Attendant. The Flight Attendant is also solely responsible for ensuring that she remains within the pager’s calling area. A Flight Attendant on reserve will respond to a telephone message or page from the Company within twenty (20) minutes, and such time will be included in the call out time required in paragraph 7 above.

Hot Reserve

A Flight Attendant on hot reserve may be scheduled for ten (10) hours of on premise duty and up to fourteen (14) hours of duty including on premise and scheduled flight assignments. If a hot reserve Flight Attendant receives a flight assignment and concludes that assignment prior to the completion of the ten hours of hot reserve duty, she may be placed back on hot reserve for the remainder of her ten (10) hours of hot reserve duty.

Flight Attendant on hot reserve will accrue flight credit in accordance with Article 3.I.2 (Compensation).

A Flight Attendant will not be required to be on hot reserve in an airport which is not a Base for the Company.

Hot reserve will only be assigned at airports with a company designated hot reserve lounge area. A hot reserve lounge area will have comfortable seating, no public access and noise and lighting can be limited.

The hot reserve assignments will be equitably allocated among the available reserves in each Base in reverse seniority order at the time of the assignment.

In the bid award, the Company may schedule a Composite/Reserve line holder for up to ten (10) hot reserve days. If the Company later determines that it needs additional hot reserves, it may assign a reserve line holder to serve additional hot reserve duty in accordance with this Article and will compensate such Flight Attendant at the rate of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each additional hot reserve assignment above ten (10).

Illness or Injury

A line holder who is unable to begin or complete an assignment or portion thereof because of illness or injury will notify Crew Scheduling immediately and will be removed from the assignment. If the assignment was a pairing and the pairing has commenced, it will normally be assigned to a Reserve Flight Attendant.

A Reserve Flight Attendant who is unable to begin or complete an assignment or portion thereof because of illness or injury will immediately notify Crew Scheduling in accordance with Article 27 (Sick Leave).

A Line Holder, who has called in sick on a multiple day pairing and is subsequently able to return to flying prior to the completion of the original pairing, will notify Crew Scheduling of her desire to return to work, in accordance with Article 27 (Sick Leave) E.2.

If the Flight Attendant’s availability to return to work is in the middle of a multi-day pairing, the Company will reinstate the Flight Attendant into her pairing in domicile at the earliest possible time. By mutual agreement between the Flight Attendant and Crew Scheduling, the Flight Attendant may return to her trip at a location other than her base, or be assigned to another trip within the days of her original trip.

If the line holder is not able to return to her pairing because it does not transit her domicile, she may elect to remain on sick leave for the duration of her pairing; or, if the Company agrees, she may be placed on reserve and be credited with 4 hours pay for each day on reserve, or the value of any pairing assigned while on reserve, whichever is greater.

A Flight Attendant who has called in sick for an assignment and is able to report for her next assignment shall notify Crew Scheduling at least six hours prior to the next assignment.

General

If two (2) line holders are scheduled to fly and report for the same pairing, the Flight Attendant who was awarded or assigned the pairing as part of her monthly bid award will fly the pairing. If the pairing was not awarded or assigned to either Flight Attendant as part of her monthly bid award, the more senior Flight Attendant will choose whether she wishes to fly the pairing. The Flight Attendant not flying the pairing will be considered displaced in accordance with paragraph F., above.

On aircraft requiring more than one Flight Attendant, working positions on the aircraft will be chosen by seniority.

If a line holder and a reserve Flight Attendant are scheduled to fly and report for the same pairing, the line holder will fly the pairing. The reserve Flight Attendant will be reassigned in accordance with paragraph F., above.

The Company will provide the Union and the members of the Flight Attendant Scheduling Committee an individual computer identification and log-in for the purpose of accessing the system in order to monitor compliance with the Agreement. Such access will not include the ability to alter a Flight Attendant’s schedule or any parameter of the programs. Each designee will execute an agreement not to reveal her individual computer identification and log-in to any other person, to share computer time or share or discuss any individual’s data with anyone other than the Company and the Union.

The Company will provide the Union’s Scheduling Committee with information regarding the use of the software data used by the system. Changes to the program software that substantially affect the PBS or the daily tracking system will not be implemented without prior consultation between the parties.

A flight scheduled to terminate (duty end time) before 2400 (midnight) will be considered to have terminated on the same day it was scheduled should it actually terminate prior to 0200 the following day.

Flight Attendants based outside of the United States will be subject to this Agreement.

With the concurrence of Crew Scheduling, a Flight Attendant may be released from a last leg to Base deadhead without penalty to her compensation.

When awarded in a line, recurrent training, checkrides, training, or any other Company assigned duty will not reduce a Flight Attendants days off to less than the minimum set forth in Article 24 (Hours of Service).

All communication between the Company and a Flight Attendant with respect to Assignment of Open Time, Trip Drops, rescheduling or other notification or direction will be done via the internet, over a recorded phone line or through such other means as may be mutually agreed upon between the Company and the Union.

Under normal circumstances a Flight Attendant will not be required to occupy the Flight Attendant Jumpseat on a deadhead flight. If required to occupy a jumpseat, the Flight Attendant will receive full flight pay.

Unless otherwise specified in this Article, all times are Local Headquarters time.

1.

Flight Attendants must submit standing bids indicating order of preference for domicile vacancies. The Company may require Flight Attendants to submit new or updated standing bids at least thirty (30) days prior to any circumstances that may cause the existing bid file to become outdated (e.g., domicile closures, domicile openings or other substantial operational changes, etc.). The Company will give at least 30 days notice to afford the Flight Attendant the opportunity to change the standing bids.

2.

The standing bid file will be maintained by the Company. Standing bids will be available for inspection by any Flight Attendant during normal office hours.

3.

A Flight Attendant may change her standing bid at any time by submitting a new standing bid to the Company. A Flight Attendant must bid on an approved format submitted to the Company by U.S. Mail, overnight express, facsimile, electronically, if available, or any other means mutually agreed upon.

1.

The Company will determine when a vacancy exists. It will post a notice of the vacancy. The notice will specify the domicile at which each vacancy will occur.

2.

Any existing openings as well as projected vacancy openings will be posted by the Company on the first (1 ^st ) of every month. If the first of every month is not available, the company will post in a timely manner, as to not interfere with the bidding process.

4.

A Flight Attendant who has not previously bid between entities with separate operating certificates may bid between such entities to fill a vacancy only if the position the Flight Attendant desires to bid is in a base/code share that does not exist within the entity in which she is currently employed.

5.

A Flight Attendant who has previously bid between entities with separate operating certificates may thereafter bid back to the previous entity only to fill a vacancy in a base/code share that did not exist at the time she bid out of that entity.

7.

The restrictions of B.4-6 above shall not prevent a Flight Attendant from exercising the rights of Article 11 (Reduction in Force and Furlough) between entities in the event of a reduction in force.

1.

Awards will be posted by 1700 hours four (4) days after the closing of the bid.

2.

The Company will not normally post secondary, tertiary, etc., vacancies caused by filling primary vacancies.

3.

Bids for vacancies will be awarded in order of seniority using standing bids on file as of the date bidding is closed.

4.

If no Flight Attendant bids a vacancy, the Company may assign a Flight Attendant to that vacancy in reverse order of seniority.

5.

The Company will determine the effective date of an award which may be changed provided adequate notice is given and the change is not made for arbitrary reasons. The Company may cancel an award at any time before its effective date.

6.

A Flight Attendant awarded a vacancy will fill the vacancy within sixty (60) days after the effective date of the award.

1.

The Company will review the mutual swaps on file no later than the third (3 ^rd ) of the month and post those mutual swaps that will become effective with the following month’s bid award.

2.

A Flight Attendant who is senior to both petitioners of a base swap may protest said swap in writing within seven (7) days of posting only if the Senior Flight Attendant is willing to take the place of the more Junior Flight Attendants involved in the swap.

3.

If the legitimate protest stands, the remaining Flight Attendant may withdraw the request and no swap will be awarded.

4.

Flight Attendants may not request domicile swaps between entities with separate operating certificates.

1.

A temporary vacancy will be any vacancy anticipated to exist for less than ninety (90) days.

2.

When the Company decides to fill a temporary vacancy, it will, if practicable, fill such vacancy from among qualified Flight Attendants in seniority order who have expressed a desire to fill a temporary vacancy, regardless of domicile. If the vacancy remains unfilled, the temporary vacancy will be assigned to a reserve Flight Attendant in reverse seniority order, insofar as may be practicable.

3.

A Flight Attendant filling a temporary vacancy will be paid per diem and expenses in accordance with this Agreement, through the duration of the temporary vacancy.

General

A Check Flight Attendant is defined as a Flight Attendant who has been selected to become a Check Flight Attendant to perform Line Checks, OE (Operating Experience), and Ramp Checks.

OE, Line Checks and Ramp Checks shall be conducted only by qualified Check Flight Attendants on the Flight Attendant Seniority List or qualified Inflight management.

The performance of Check Flight Attendant duties by Flight Attendants on the seniority list shall not cause those Flight Attendants to become Management Employees.

Selection and Retention of Check Flight Attendants

The selection and retention of Check Flight Attendants shall be at Company discretion but consistent with the following criteria:

A total of one year Flight Attendant experience, with at least nine of those months with Chautauqua Airlines.

Must be a non-probationary Flight Attendant.  

A consistent record of adherence to Company policies and procedures.

90% or better on the first attempt on their most recent recurrent test.

No written warning or disciplinary suspension in the prior twelve (12) months.

The Retention of Check Flight Attendants shall require the successful completion of a standardized Check Flight Attendant course, annual recurrent class, and competence check, if applicable, in addition to the requirements in the above paragraph B.1.a-e.

Flight Attendants who are not selected will have the option to reapply at a later date.

Scheduling

A Check Flight Attendant may bid her schedule based on her seniority.

A Check Flight Attendant will not be involuntarily rescheduled to work on her days off.

When a Check Flight Attendant is scheduled to report to perform any of her Check Flight Attendant duties at a location other than her base, she will be provided space positive travel from her base. Upon reasonable advance request, Crew Scheduling will attempt to arrange positive space travel from another mutually agreed location.

The Company will equitably distribute assignments among Check Flight Attendants, taking into account availability and training scheduling requirements.

Compensation

A Check Flight Attendant will be compensated at the rate of $10.00 per hour in addition to her rate of flight pay when performing Check Flight Attendant duties.

A Check Flight Attendant removed from trips to perform flying or non-flying Check Flight Attendant duties will be paid and credited for the greater of the value of the missed trips or at the value of the assignment she performs.

When the Company schedules a Check Flight Attendant for non-flying Check Flight Attendant duties prior to the opening of the Bid Period, the Flight Attendant will receive five (5) virtual credit hours as defined in Article 6 (Scheduling).

A Check Flight Attendant performing non-flying Check Flight Attendant duties on a day off will be compensated at the Check Flight Attendant rate at a minimum of four (4) hours or at a rate of one (1) hour for every two (2) hours of duty, whichever is greater.

A Check Flight Attendant, who is required to travel away from her base for the purpose of meeting, training, or any other Check Flight Attendant duties, will be provided single occupancy rooms in accordance with Article 4 (Expenses).

A.

A Flight Attendant’s seniority shall begin on the Flight Attendant's date of hire. When two (2) or more Flight Attendants have the same date of hire, they shall be placed on the seniority list according to the last four (4) digits of their social security numbers, i.e., the lowest number shall be the most senior. A Flight Attendant's pay shall commence on date of hire. Except as otherwise specified in this Agreement, all Flight Attendants shall be full time employees of the Company.

B.

A Flight Attendant shall lose her seniority if any of the following occurs: