Time-Stamped Trip Drop Requests

Flight Attendants are actually harming themselves when they continue to submit multiple requests for the same exact trip drop.

Each time you request to drop a trip, the request receives a time-stamp from the date and time you submitted it. This establishes the order in which the drop is processed.  Crew scheduling uses the last, not the first, time stamp on the request(s) you’ve submitted. This is done to ensure that a Flight Attendant who wishes to change her/his original request, has the ability to do so. For example, if you originally request to drop your entire three-day trip, but decide later that you only need one day of that three-day trip off, you can submit another request and Swaps/Drops will look only, at the last time stamp submitted. This ensures that your request to drop only one day off rather than three, will be given priority when crew scheduling processes the request.

When you continue to submit the same drop request, you will lose your original time-stamp and the time stamp of the last drop request you’ve submitted will be used to process that drop.

You should also be aware that should you wish Swaps/Drops to entirely disregard a previously sent request to drop a trip, you may do so by submitting a “RF 200 DIS” form. For example and as stated above, if you originally submitted a request to drop a three-day trip, but change your mind and only want to drop one day of the three-day trip. You can submit a “RF 200 DIS” to direct Swaps/Drops to totally dismiss your original drop. You can then submit the new request to drop only one day.