There are two new MEC Grievances that have been filed on behalf of all American Eagle Flight Attendants in order to protect your rights. Please read on to determine if you have been affected and if so, how you can help.

MEC Grievance #22-99-2-12-07 OT Replacement Flying

This grievance challenges the company’s action of requiring a flight attendant to accept a replacement OT trip in order to receive compensation, when swaps/drops has first awarded an OT trip and then taken it away.  Sometimes, the OT is taken from the flight attendant wrongfully and sometimes it is taken because a mistake was made in the first place and it never should have been awarded (i.e. legality problems). Nonetheless, past practice has shown us a line-holding Flight Attendant need only be awarded the time, in order to receive credit for the trip. If a trip had been removed, whether rightfully or wrongfully in the past, the flight attendant would still receive credit for the trip and was not required to accept any substitute flying in order such credit. AFA believes that this new condition the company has imposed is in violation of Section 4.F and past practice.

If you have been required to accept a new or replacement OT trip sequence (this does not include those instances in which you have lost all or a portion of a sequence and thus have an obligation to accept assigned new flying pursuant to Section 8.D.2.)  in order to receive proper credit following the removal of an OT trip, previously awarded, please gather the following evidence and remit it to your Local Union Representatives:

1)     Copy of your HI1 showing original OT trip awarded

2)     Copy of the HI3 for the original OT trip awarded

3)     Copy of any e-mail or other correspondence between you and Swaps/Drops

4)     Copy of HI3 for new/replacement OT trip

5)     Name of Flight Attendant who was assigned to your originally awarded OT trip

6)     Write up giving a brief description of the events that transpired

MEC Grievance #22-99-2-13-07 Assigned New Flying Later Than Originally Scheduled Check Out Time

This grievance challenges the company’s position that Section 8.D.2.a. is intended to mean that assigned new flying received pursuant to this section, must have a check out time that is 2 hours from the original trip’s scheduled or the actual delayed check out time whichever is later.

AFA’s position is that the assigned new flying must be completed by 2 hours after the originally scheduled check out time.

For example, Flight Attendant Smith’s last leg of her sequence was cancelled. She is now subjected to receive assigned new flying pursuant to Section 8.D.2.a. Smith’s original trip was scheduled to end at 2:00 PM. However, it had a delayed departure which resulted in a new end time of 3:00 PM. As stated earlier however, the roundtrip ultimately cancels. Smith is now assigned to new flying. This new roundtrip is scheduled to be done at 5:00 PM.

The Company believes this to be legal as 5:00 PM is two hours later than the delayed departure time at 3:00 PM, of the original trip.

However, AFA believes that the assigned new flying must be scheduled to end by 4:00 PM, which represents 2 hours later than the originally scheduled end time 2:00 PM.

If this has happened to you, please gather the following pieces of evidence and remit them to your Local Representative.

1)     Copy of your original trip sequence or HI3

2)     Copy of your revised HI3

3)     Copy of HI1 for the month in which the incident occurred

4)     Write up giving brief description of the events that transpired