10.09.24 – Holiday Pay

Holiday Pay

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

In accordance with 2024 CBA 3.K, Flight Attendants will receive Holiday Pay for the flight legs you work that touch designated holiday days. Holiday Pay will be paid to all Flight Attendants, both Lineholders and Reserves, working on a designated holiday, regardless of how you obtained the trip.

Holiday Pay consists of a premium of 100% in addition to 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 the 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 designated holidays:

• Wednesday before Thanksgiving Day (November 27, 2024)
• Thanksgiving Day (November 28, 2024)
• Sunday following Thanksgiving (December 1, 2024)
• Monday following Thanksgiving (December 2, 2024)
• December 24th
• December 25th
• December 26th
• December 31st
• January 1st

In this hotline, we will share some additional details, holiday pay examples, and a Q&A.

Additional Details

• Holiday Pay is only paid for the flight legs that touch the designated holidays. Holiday pay does not apply to the entire sequence unless each leg touches a holiday.
• If the departure or arrival of the leg (local station time) touches the holiday, you will be paid the holiday pay for that leg.
• “Flown” hours are block hours. Eligible hours are those scheduled within a flight leg that touches the holiday. Deadheads are credited block hours and, as such, are eligible for holiday pay.
• It is 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.
• ODAN Exception: Hours flown as a scheduled On-Duty All Night (ODAN) sequence in a single duty period that touches a holiday will be eligible for the holiday 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 is based on scheduled or actual. This means you will be paid the holiday premium on the greater of scheduled or actual flying time.
• 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.
• Updated in 2024 CBA: If you were originally scheduled to fly on a holiday, but as a result of an early or late departure/arrival the leg(s) flown no longer touch the holiday, you will still receive the holiday premium.
• Updated in 2024 CBA: Flight Attendants serving airport standby and do no flying will be eligible for holiday pay. 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 standby hours on that shift.
• Updated in 2024 CBA: If you serve airport standby on a holiday and are assigned flying on the holiday day, only the flight hours touching the holiday are eligible for holiday pay. If you serve airport standby on a holiday and are assigned flying that departs on a non-holiday, you will be eligible for holiday pay for the standby hours only.
• 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 who have a report/no fly event on a holiday will be eligible for the holiday premium on any applicable call out pay.
• Holiday pay will not apply to CBA premiums such as Lead, Galley, International, Speaker, etc.
• Please note: December 1st, 2024 is part of the November bid month. December 2nd, 2024 is part of the December bid month.
• Contractual holiday pay has no perfect attendance component; you just need to fly on the applicable holiday.

Holiday Pay Examples
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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.

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Q: I have a flight departing on a holiday, but it arrives on a non-holiday. Do I get the Holiday Pay for the entire flight leg or just the hours that are on the holiday? – or – I have a flight departing on a non-holiday, but it arrives on a holiday. Do I get the Holiday Pay for the entire flight leg or just the hours that are on the holiday?
A: You will get Holiday Pay for the entire flight leg that touches a holiday. To be eligible for Holiday Pay, either the departure of the leg (based on local station time) or the arrival of the leg (based on local station time) must touch the holiday.

Q: My flight is scheduled to depart on the holiday but is delayed and will now be departing on a non-holiday. Do I still get holiday pay because the leg was originally scheduled to touch the holiday?
A: Yes. If your flight was originally scheduled to touch the holiday but as a result of a delay is no longer departing on the holiday, you will still receive holiday pay for the flight leg flown.  

Q: My flight was scheduled to arrive on a holiday, but I arrived early and the flight no longer touches the holiday. Do I still get holiday pay because the leg was originally scheduled to touch the holiday?
A: Yes. If your flight was originally scheduled to touch the holiday but as a result of an early arrival no longer touches the holiday, you will still receive holiday pay for the flight leg flown.

Q: I am scheduled to deadhead on a holiday. Will I get Holiday Pay for the deadhead leg?
A: Yes. Holiday Pay is paid on all flown hours on a leg touching a holiday, including deadheads.

Q: I want to “no-show” for my deadhead on a holiday, will I get the Holiday Pay if I no-show?
A: Yes. You are eligible for Holiday Pay for a “no-show” deadhead. CBA 16 states that you will be paid for a scheduled deadhead as if you had flown the deadhead.

Q: I have a Red Flag trip that touches a holiday. Will I get both Red Flag and Holiday Pay?
A: Yes. You will get the applicable Holiday Pay in addition to the Red Flag pay.

Q: Do I have to have perfect attendance throughout the holiday periods to qualify for Holiday Pay?
A: No. Holiday Pay has no ‘perfect attendance’ components; you just need to fly on the designated holiday(s).

Q: Why are the paid holidays different than the attendance critical periods?
A: Paid holidays are completely separate from management’s Attendance Policy. The Holiday Pay incentive is provided for in the 2024 CBA. Critical periods associated with attendance and banked points are Company policy. Management has not communicated a change to the attendance policy.

Q: I am a reserve on a RAP and don’t end up being awarded/assigned a trip or standby during my RAP. Am I eligible for holiday pay for my RAP?
A. No. You are not eligible for holiday pay for a RAP if you do no flying or do not serve a standby on the holiday.

Q: When will I be paid the Holiday Pay?
A: The process for calculating holiday pay has been automated. Holiday pay will be included in the contractual month the trip is completed. This means holiday pay will pay out on the mid-month paycheck the month following the completion of the trip.

In Solidarity,

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