10.08.22 – New Contractual Holiday Pay Begins in November

Saturday, October 8, 2022

New Contractual Holiday Pay Begins in November

Earlier this year, your APFA National and Base Leadership secured a letter of agreement (LOA) that includes permanent contractual improvements to the holiday pay provisions contained in JCBA 3.J. Holiday pay will be paid to all Flight Attendants, both Reserves and Lineholders, working on a designated holiday, regardless of how you obtained the trip.

The holiday pay consists of a premium of 100% over your base hourly rate and is based on the greater of scheduled or actual hours flown (including reschedules) on a designated holiday. The holiday premium will be paid above guarantee for Reserves. The holiday premium will be pay no credit for Lineholders and will not raise or lower your TTS max.

The following nine (9) days are the newly designated holidays:

• Wednesday before Thanksgiving Day (November 23, 2022)
• Thanksgiving Day (November 24, 2022)
• Sunday following Thanksgiving (November 27, 2022)
• Monday following Thanksgiving (November 28, 2022)
• December 24th
• December 25th
• December 26th
• December 31st
• January 1st

This new, contractual holiday pay has no perfect attendance component; you just need to fly on the applicable holiday day.

Here are some additional details:

• “Flown” hours are block hours. Eligible hours are those flown within a leg or segment that touch the holiday. Deadheads are credited block hours and as such are eligible for the holiday pay.
• It’s important to note that paid and credited hours as a result of duty, trip or minimum day rigs are not eligible for the holiday premium.
• If the departure or arrival (local station time) touches the holiday, you will be paid the holiday pay.
• Holiday pay is based on scheduled or actual. This means you will be paid the holiday premium on the greater of scheduled or actual flying time.
• Additionally, if you are scheduled to fly on the holiday, but as a result of an early or late arrival the leg flown no longer touches the holiday, you will still be eligible for the holiday premium.
• Alternately, if you were not originally scheduled to fly on the holiday, but as a result of a reschedule or an early or late departure/arrival the leg(s) flown touch the holiday, you will now be eligible for the holiday premium.
• Since holiday pay is based on hours “flown”, flights or trips that cancel will not be paid the holiday premium. This includes hours that are pay protected by other provisions in the JCBA.
• Flight Attendants serving airport standby will be eligible for holiday pay. All standby hours within a shift that touch the holiday will be eligible. This means that if your standby crosses over midnight of the holiday, you are eligible for holiday pay for all the standby hours.
• Flight Attendants who have a report/no fly event on a holiday will be eligible for the holiday premium on any applicable call out pay.
• ODAN Exception: Hours flown as a scheduled On-Duty All Nighter (ODAN) in a single duty period that touches a holiday day will be eligible for the holiday day pay. This means that if you are on an ODAN that touches a holiday, you will be eligible for the holiday premium for the block hours flown on both legs of the sequence.
• Holiday pay will not apply to JCBA premiums such as Lead, Galley, International, Speaker, etc.
• The holiday pay will be paid as soon as practicable until programming is in place to pay it in the normal pay cycle.

As you prepare to bid in PBS for your November schedule, we want to provide some examples, so you have a clear understanding of how holiday pay works.

Holiday Pay Examples
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Example 1: PHL-CUN-PHL turn, departing Wednesday, November 23rd

Sequence pay: 7.36
Scheduled hours on a holiday day: 7.36
Hours eligible for 100% holiday premium: 7.36

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Example 2: PHL-ORD-PHL turn departing Wednesday, November 23rd

Sequence pay: 5.00
Scheduled hours on a holiday day: 4.36
Hours eligible for 100% holiday premium: 4.36

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Example 3: MCO two-day sequence November 23rd and 24th

Total sequence pay: 10.00
Scheduled hours on a holiday day: 9.19
Hours eligible for 100% holiday premium: 9.19

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Example 4: Three-day sequence November 27th-29th (full-day layover in RNO; no flying on the 28th, which is a holiday day)

Total sequence pay: 15.11
Scheduled hours on a holiday day (duty period 1): 5.34
Hours eligible for 100% holiday premium: 5.34

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Example 5: ODAN* sequence November 26th and 27th

*ODAN Exception: Hours flown as part of a scheduled ODAN that is completed in a single duty period and touches a designated holiday day will be eligible for the additional pay.

Total sequence pay: 6.07
Scheduled hours on a holiday day: 4.58
Hours eligible for 100% holiday day premium: 4.58

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Example 6: Four-day sequence November 24th-27th

Because day one and day four of this sequence both touch a holiday, hours flown on both of those days are eligible for the holiday premium.

Total sequence pay: 22.59
Scheduled hours on holiday day (duty periods 1 & 4): 11.49
Hours eligible for 100% holiday premium: 11.49

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Example 7: Standby* shift that crosses into or out of a holiday day

*If the standby touches a holiday day, you are eligible for holiday pay for the entire standby shift.

Total standby pay: 3.30
Scheduled hours on holiday day: 4.00
Hours eligible for 100% holiday premium: 3.30

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Example 8: MIA-MDE all-nighter turn departing Monday, November 28th

Because the MIA-MDE leg is the only one that touches the holiday, only the hours flown on that leg are eligible for the holiday premium.

Total sequence pay: 7.09
Scheduled hours on holiday day: 3.36
Hours eligible for 100% holiday premium:  3.36

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Example 9: LAX-LHR-LAX departing on Tuesday, November 22nd

Because the LAX-LHR leg arrives on the 23^rd Local Station Time (LHR), touching the holiday, and the LHR-LAX leg touches the 24th, the block hours from both legs are eligible for the holiday premium.

Sequence pay: 21.50
Scheduled hours on a holiday day: 21.50
Hours eligible for 100% holiday premium: 21.50

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In Solidarity,

Jeff Petersen
APFA National Contract Chair
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Marti McMillan
APFA National Scheduling Chair
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