10.05.24 – APFA MIA Base Brief – November 2024 Staffing and Allocations

November 2024 Staffing and Allocations

Saturday, October 5, 2024

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Bid Sheet and Staffing

The Contractual Month of November is November 1^st –December 1^st. November has two schedule changes, November 5th and November 21st. Daylight Saving Time end on Sunday, November 3rd. Thanksgiving is Thursday, November 28th.

PBS Preliminary Manning Plan – November 2024

The available headcount for November is 3463. This is an increase of 95 heads year-over-year, but down 11 from October. The line average will be 78.9 hours at PBS opening.

Reserve Projections

We are projected to have 528 Reserves for November, which represents 15.2% of the base. Our Reserve numbers are 2.9% lower than October, and .9% lower than November 2023.

The reserve seniority for October at the start of PBS was April 28, 2022. November reserve seniority begins at November 3, 2022.

Flying Summary

EZE will have two daily trips, one on the 777-200 and one on the 787-8. GIG will operate daily on the 777-200. GRU will operate three daily flights with a Rocket on the 777-200, a 35-hour layover on the 777-200 and a 38-hour layover on the 777-300. LHR will operate two daily flights on the 777-300. BCN will operate daily on the 777-200 and changes to the 787-8 on November 21st. MAD operates on the 777-200. MVD returns three times weekly beginning November 22nd on the 787-8.

For domestic wide-body flying, there is a two-day LAX trip on the 787-8 for part of the month. There are DFW and JFK turns on the 777, both with long sit times. There will be no NIPD wide-body flying.

IPD Flying

• LHR-777-300 Daily (2)
• BCN-777-200, 787-8 beginning 20NOV
• MAD-777-200 Daily
• GRU-777-300 Daily (2)
• GRU-787-8 Daily
• GIG-777-200 Daily
• MVD-787-8,  3 times weekly

Wide-body Domestic

• LAX-787 two-day, second half of the month
• DFW turn
• JFK turn

ODANs

• MCO, ATL, TPA, JAX, MSY, CHS, CLT, RDU

Turns

• PAP, HAV, SJU, MEX, SDQ, CUN, PUJ, STT, GND, SVD, ANU, POS, SKB, FDF, NAS, STI, PTY, UVF, CLO, SXM, CTG, CUR, SJO, AUA, LIR, XPL, GUA, SCU, PEI, BON, CMW, DCA, ATL, EWR, BNA, MSY, CLT, PHX, DEN, AUS, IND, JAX

Block Hours

• MIA: 191,630
• ATL: 1,986
• FLL: 6,145
• MCO: 2,587
• PBI: 4,465

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Delay vs. Reschedule

We have seen a substantial uptick in questions regarding delays that result in returning to base outside the footprint of a trip. A Reschedule is defined as a deviation from your scheduled legs in a sequence, meaning different city pairs. A regular delay of flights that are in your scheduled sequence is not a Reschedule (CBA 10.J.1.e.iv).

The provision that requires the company to make every effort to reschedule crews to arrive back at base no later than the time they were originally scheduled to return (CBA 10.J.7) does not apply to simple delays of departure/arrival times.

Example: You are flying a turnaround, and the first leg has a two-hour delay so you will arrive back to base from the turnaround two hours late. Because you are late returning to base as a result of a delay, not a reschedule, the language in 10.J.7 would not apply. The company would be required to ensure the flying does not exceed duty day limitations.

However, in another example, you are on a trip and experience a disruption (e.g. cancellation, misconnect). The company is rescheduling you to different flying (city pairs) to prevent a delay or cancellation. In this case the language in 10.J.7 would require the company make every effort to get you back to base within the original footprint.

It’s important to note that when you experience a disruption or cancellation at an outstation, there may be limited flights to get you back to base within the footprint.

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More Than a Three (3) Hour Delay (After Report)

Section 10.J.8. “When a flight departure is delayed for more than three (3) hours, the Flight Attendant who is scheduled for such flight shall not be required to stand by and shall be relieved of duty at her/his request, provided that other Flight Attendants are available to replace her/him without increasing the delay. A Flight Attendant desiring to be released shall remain on duty until the relief Flight Attendant reports for duty. A Flight Attendant exercising this option shall forfeit any pay and credit that may be accumulated under any other Paragraph in Section 10.”

This provision applies at sequence origination only, not mid-sequence. You are not entitled to Call Out pay or pay protection, but you will receive the Duty Rig from report to release. Section 11.D.5. states, “A Flight Attendant shall receive a minimum of one (1) hour of pay and credit for every two (2) hours of actual on-duty time prorated on a minute-by-minute basis of actual on-duty time.”

Example: You are delayed for more than three hours and choose to be removed from your sequence. You reported at 1000 and are relieved and released at 1400. Your four hours on duty would generate two hours of pay. Once released, contact Crew Scheduling to ensure your release time is added so pay for the duty day can be added. If the pay is not generated by closeout, submit a Direct Connect.

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New Collective Bargaining Agreement

Please tune in to the documents folder in Comply and APFA hotlines to stay on top of implementation statuses and links to pertinent information. Implementation Timeline

The enhanced Holiday/Incentive Pay provisions in Section 3.K. are effective for this year’s Thanksgiving holiday.

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Professional Standards

Professional Standards rep Gina Blakley may be reached at 917.749.5032 for October.

Please use Professional Standards for issues you are unable to resolve on the airplane. Keep it out of the office.

In Solidarity,

Randy Trautman
APFA MIA Base President
[email protected]

Heidi Morgan
APFA MIA Base Vice President
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