Topic:

Section 5 Expenses

Question:

My flight got cancelled and now I have a 6-hour sit at the outstation. I called crew scheduling to ask for a hotel room and they told me I couldn’t have it. The contract says I am entitled to a day room if my ground time is scheduled for or anticipated to be more than five hours. Why can’t I have the room?

Answer:

This can get a little hard to understand. Although Section 5.A.2., does entitle you to a day room if your ground time is scheduled for or anticipated to be more than five hours, Section 8.D.2.advises us that in the event you lose all or a portion of a trip, you are subject to receive assigned new flying for a period not to exceed 2 hours. Therefore, if you are at an outstation or a domicile other than your own, and there is no way an assignment to new flying could be made, the five hours is anticipated immediately and you should be given the day room.

Alternatively, if you are at another domicile or an active outstation, scheduling can hold you up to two hours for potential assignment to new flying. During this time you cannot anticipate having five uninterrupted hours of ground time, thus the entitlement to a day room in this scenario will begin when the 2-hour window is completed and only if you are scheduled to remain on the ground 5 or more additional hours.

It should be noted that you may call crew scheduling and ask if any alternative flying is expected. One of two things should happen.

Crew Scheduling may immediately know that no alternative flying is available. In this case, the five hours will commence at that point and the day room will be provided.

Conversely, Crew Scheduling may anticipate that alternative flying could become available. In this case, you will be required to remain available for the two-hour assignment to new flying period as found in Section 8 of the contract. Once this two-hour period is complete, the five hours will commence at that point and the day room will be provided.

Question:

I am a Reserve Flight Attendant and the three-day trip I was assigned, canceled in domicile on the first overnight. Scheduling sent me home and told me to come back and pick the trip back up beginning with the first leg out the next day. I noticed that my three-day trip had been changed and separated into a one single-day trip and a two-day trip. My per diem did not continue uninterrupted for the duration of the originally scheduled three-day trip? Is this correct?

Answer:

No. Section 7.C.4., applies to Reserve Flight Attendants as well as lineholders. In the event a Reserve F/A who has been assigned a sequence experiences a trip split in domicile, Crew Scheduling has three options available to them. They may assign new flying, assign a completely new trip sequence in accordance with the time balancing provisions found in Section 9 of the agreement or they may keep the Flight Attendant on the same sequence with the canceled overnight and continue her/his per diem.

Question:

My overnight trip canceled and split in my domicile. I am a commuter and do not live in my domicile. Will the Company provide me with a hotel room?

Answer:

You are entitled to a hotel room if the actual rest period has been rescheduled as a reduced rest, but you must ask Crew Scheduling for the room. If the overnight is more than a reduced rest, you can still ask for the room, but it will be given at the Company’s discretion. However, if your pilots are given a room, you should also be provided one.