4. RSV Preferencing Assignment Process:
Preferences Not Honored
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There are a few circumstances that may prevent a Reserve’s preferences from being honored and/or may cause the Reserve to be assigned out of TMAC order.
A Reserve may receive an assignment out of TMAC order:
➢ If they are the only Flight Attendant who is legal, qualified and available for that assignment; or
➢ If it is the only assignment for which they are legal, qualified and available.
A Reserve’s preference may not be honored:
➢ When there is an available Reserve whose number of days of availability more closely matches the assignment.
➢ When honoring a preference would result in decreasing the number of assignments or result in earlier departures being uncovered.
➢ When a Reserve is in-motion (on a pairing) at the time the Reserve Preferencing system runs, the Company may deny a preferencing request for an assignment if the check-in time is within 1 hour of the conclusion of the legal rest associated with the projected arrival of the Reserve.
IMPORTANT NOTE: IN THE EVENT OF A SYSTEM FAILURE OR A MAJOR DISRUPTION TO THE INTEGRITY OF THE OPERATION, THE COMPANY MAY PROCESS RESERVE ASSIGNMENTS IN TMAC ORDER, CONSIDERING FIFO ORDER, THEN THE HIGHER SENIORITY AS THE TIEBREAKER, IF NECESSARY.