The Reserve co-terminal preference system test is expanding to another co-terminal in the month of July.  AFA and the company will continue to monitor the co-terminal test taking place in BWI and OAK as we continue to work towards implementation at every co-terminal throughout the system. 

Under the parameters of the Flight Attendant Bidding System Letter of Agreement, this concept is now a Contractual part of the Reserve scheduling parameters.  However, the process by which this is accomplished must be developed and tested to determine the method that best provides opportunity for a Reserve to preference co-terminal flying.

Reserve co-terminal preference will soon be applied at Contractual co-terminals system-wide.  In addition to BWI and OAK, this includes active co-terminals BUR, DCA, and LGA along with MDW and SNA should the company later activate these co-terminals.  

Beginning July 1, Flight Attendants serving Reserve in DCA and SFO will have the opportunity to preference assignment of trips in BWI and OAK, respectively.

Setting Your Preference

As of April 24th, the Unimatic screen, REQCOT, will provide Flight Attendants the ability to add a co-terminal preference or delete a co-terminal preference at any time.  In the example below, Mary Mainliner is an SFO Reserve who prefers OAK flying.  She has registered her preference by indicating her domicile first – SFO – and her preferred co-terminal (STA) – OAK. 

  
  REQCOT/161949/MAINLINER         /M         /SFO/

     *** PREFERRED  CO-TERMINAL RESERVE ASSIGNMENTS ***

  PREFERRED CO-TERMINALS UPDATED 24APR2007 AT 12:00Z BY

If Mary wants to delete this preference at any time, she would visit the REQCOT screen again and simply type over the “SFO” and “OAK” with the space bar, and then hit “enter.”

Schedule Process for Test

Co-terminal preferencing changes the Reserve order of assignment to some degree.

CLLR Assignment Process (1900 Local Domicile Time)

1. OAK open assignments assigned to CLLR Reserves who have preferenced the OAK co-terminal.
2. All remaining IDs will be assigned in the Contractual CLLR assignment process.

Ready RSV Assignment Process

1. Ready Reserves who have preferenced OAK may be assigned any remaining open OAK trips.

Co-Terminal Preference May Not Adversely Impact Overall Reserve Coverage

Overall Reserve coverage will be considered in the assignment process.  Co-terminal preference will be honored assuming it does not adversely impact overall reserve coverage. 

For Example:
There are 4 SFO CLLR Reserves available for assignment at 1900. 

Flight Attendants:

• Mary Mainliner, 3 days availability and OAK preference
• Sandra Day, 1 day availability and OAK preference
• Ricky Jones, 2 days availability and no preference
• Thomas Jefferson, 1 day availability and no preference

The open trip file contains:

• 2 day OAK, ID 1111
• 1 day OAK ID 2222
• 3 day SFO ID 3333
• 1 day SFO ID 4444

Assignments:
Mary Mainliner has preferenced OAK, but there is no one else available to cover the 3 day SFO trip, so she is assigned ID 3333.  Sandra Day is assigned her OAK preference, ID 2222.  Ricky Jones is assigned the 2 day OAK, ID 1111.  Thomas Jefferson is assigned the 1 day SFO, ID 4444.

Monitoring Co-terminal Reserve Preference

Unimatic has been programmed to read and display the co-terminal preference during the Reserve assignment process.  Use RSVSKD to access a list of Reserve availability.  In order to identify all Reserves with a BWI or OAK preference, enter “BWI” or “OAK” under “STA.”

         DOM  ODQ DATE   TYPE  DY   ORDER  LANG STA PRT
»RSVSKD/ DCA_/ _/ _____/ ____/ ___/ _____/ ___/ BWI/ _

Feedback

Flight Attendant feedback is important throughout the development and testing process.  Please provide feedback to your Local Council.