The company and APFA worked to streamline the exchange of trips process, and as a result, agreed on many changes including:
- Explore ways to improve trip trades with open time. Expand trip-trade finder to display both company time and flight attendants desiring to trade or drop. Permit for Schedule Enhancement Period (SEP).
- After fulfilling his or her obligation for days originally scheduled to fly, a flight attendant that has involuntarily lost time would be eligible to one-way pick up from open time on any day in the month up to the monthly maximum or up to the amount of time lost, whichever is greater.
- Flight attendants with dual qualifications may trip trade with another dual-qualified flight attendant or with open time at an adjacent base in either division (with certain restrictions that allow priority to flight attendants assigned to division), provided all required service qualifications and legalities are met.
- For example, a dual-qualified flight attendant based at JFK could trade with a dual-qualified flight attendant based at LGA.
- The company would grant an exchange if there is one hour additional buffer between trips for all applicable legality provisions.
- An AVBL flight attendant who is originally scheduled below the monthly guarantee and further reduces his or her actual scheduled hours through a trip trade would have his or her monthly guarantee reduced by the difference between the traded trips.
- As it applies to TTOT procedures, allow position swaps until 8:00 a.m. the day before.
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