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Holiday Pay (JCBA 4.I)

Holiday Pay

In addition to all other compensation, a working Flight Attendant

shall be paid at double her/his hourly rate of pay as stated in

Paragraph A. above. The amount of holiday pay due shall be

calculated as follows:

1. Lineholders

Formula: Hourly rate of pay times the credited flight time for the pairing,

divided by the number of hours away from home (TAFB), times the

number of hours away from home falling within the holiday.

2. Reserves

a. If released on a holiday, Reserve receives no holiday pay.

b. If on Ready Reserve status and does not fly = 4:27 (30 days) or 4:13 (31 days) times the Reserve’s hourly rate.

c. If on Ready Reserve status and flies a pairing, receives greater of Paragraph b. or Lineholder computation.

Call-out Pay & Standby Reserves

A Flight Attendant qualifying for two (2) hour call-out pay or five (5) hour Standby Reserve pay shall receive double pay for those hours if they fall within the holiday period.

3. Training and Meetings

In addition to compensation provided under Section 11, Flight Attendants scheduled by the Company to attend any training or meeting on a holiday shall receive holiday pay pursuant to Paragraph I.1. and 2. above.

4. Flight Attendants will be paid for the holidays specified for her/his Domicile country. No Flight Attendant shall be eligible to be paid for more than five (5) holidays in any calendar year.

Example:

A Flight Attendant making $40.00 per hour flies a pairing which produces fourteen (14) hours of credited flight time and keeps the Flight Attendant away from home (check-in to check-out) for forty-eight (48) hours of which twenty-four (24) hours falls on the holiday:

$560.00 ÷ 48 hours away from home = $11.67

$11.67 x 24 hours on holiday = $280.08

Holiday Pay = $280.08

Other Holiday Pay Considerations

Deviation: Fake DHD (per Section 3.I.13.a/b)

If a Domestic LH gives appropriate notice or a Reserve receives permission to deviate, holiday pay will be based on the originally scheduled time away from home (TMA) using the original return flight arrival time, regardless of how the final segment operates.

Deviation: Earlier DHD (per Section 3.I.13.a/b)

In a situation where a Flight Attendant provides the appropriate notice or receives permission to deviate and she/he requests the company modify her/his pairing to schedule them to return to base earlier than was scheduled in her/his original pairing, she/he will have her/his holiday pay recalculated using the formula outlined in Section 4.I based on the early return to base and reduction in her/his time away (TMA) from home.

Out of Base Pickups (from unitedafa.org)

When a Flight Attendant picks up “out of base”, that is at another domicile, domestic to international or vice versa, on a holiday at the out of base location, the Flight Attendant is entitled to be paid the scheduled holiday pay for the base at which the pairing has been picked up. The holiday pay is paid as if the Flight Attendant were based at the location where the pairing was picked up however, the system will not auto generate the pay. The Flight Attendant who works the pairing at the out of base location is required to submit a Pay Register/Pay Inquiry form via Help Hub to advise payroll she/he has worked an “out of base” pairing on the holiday at the location where the pairing was picked up. 

If the Flight Attendant does not reach out to Crew Pay there is no way for Crew Pay to know the Flight Attendant is due holiday pay.  These out of base transaction are processed as exceptions to the holidays listed for the domicile of the Flight Attendant. Keep in mind, Section 2.Q.2. of our Contract limits the number of paid holidays for every Flight Attendant to a maximum of five (5) holidays in any calendar year.