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Greetings,
The American Eagle MEC is working with Management to
change the requirement for our Flight Attendants to have to
manually turn on the Y indicator every month that enables
you to fly more than 100 hours in
a month.
We have had reports that some of our Flight
Attendants have forgotten to turn on the Y indicator, and then
they have been denied assistance from In-Flight
Managers to use their Management code to override the
system after the bids have closed to turn on the Y
indicator.
During our testing of the
TTOT system before going live I expressed concern that
if our Flight Attendants did forget to turn on the Y
indicator I did not want their income to be affected. Linda
Kunz Vice President of in-flight assured me that
all Managers would be
available to help in the event a Flight
Attendant forgot to turn on the 100 hour
indicator.
Last week, I placed a call to Linda to inform her
that this agreement was not being followed by In-Flight managers
consistently. Linda has since sent a reminder to all base
Mangers that if you forget to turn on your 100 hour
indicator they are to help you. If any of you have
a problem in the future, please report this to your LEC
President as soon as possible.
Currently, we are working on a long term fix whereby
the indicator will always be set to Y instead of N. This way you
will not have to manually enter this every month. Please be
advised that even though your indicator will always be set to Y
- this does not automatically wave your
contractual rights for Crew Scheduling to add flying over
100 hours. A flight Attendant is the only one that
can waive their rights to go over 100 hours even though your
indicator will always be set to Y unless you manually change
it to N in the future.
In Closing the programming department is still
working on this change and we will advise you when the
programming is complete. In the interim, please continue to
make this entry manually should you wish to fly over 100
hours during any given month. Should you forget to turn on
the Y indicator, again, your base Managers are
there to assist you with this.
If you have questions, please do not hesitate to
contact your Local President.
In Solidarity,
Veronica Tenerelli
AFA AMR MEC President
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