From: Dear AFA

With the upcoming holidays and potential for winter storms around the corner, it is important to know the drafting provisions of our Contract. The drafting of Lineholders is provided for, only after exhausting the Order of Assignment, as set forth in Sections 9.I. and 12.Q. of our Contract.   Section 8.G. provides for the recently negotiated improvements to our Drafting Pay. 

In addition to the new Drafting Pay provision, there are pay ramifications involving holiday pay when drafted. When drafted away from a holiday ID, to fly a non-holiday ID, the scheduled holiday pay must be considered when making the flight pay calculation. A comparison must be made between the dollar value of the ID flown (including any applicable holiday pay) to the value of the ID from which drafted (including holiday pay.) If the value of the ID from which drafted (including holiday pay) is greater than the value of the ID to which flown, the Flight Attendant is entitled to the pay differential, or the greater of the two. This differential, once calculated as a result of the comparison will be posted in the DFAP in the form of an hour and minute posting. 

When you are given a drafting assignment, we encourage you to have the scheduler clarify that you have, in fact, been drafted and under which section of the Contract this is being done.  To ensure that the drafting is correctly applied, request the scheduler remark the ID appropriately indicating "DRFT". This will assist Flight Time Records when making their manual review of pay associated with each drafting situation.

We encourage all Flight Attendants who have been drafted to check their DFAP records. In May 2012, the company implemented new DFAP “Cert Codes” for the 2 ½ hour Drafting Pay. The last three digits of the cert code for the Drafting Pay are ‘169.’  For those individuals working language or premium pay positions, the last three digits of the cert code that will be used to recording the Drafting Pay with the appropriate premiums are ‘269.’