Ready Reserve Preferences
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Ready Reserve Preferences (Section 8.G.2.)
Ready Reserve Preferences (Section 8.G.2.)
Independent and separate from the Reserve Preferencing System, Ready Reserves will be provided an opportunity to express certain preferences, which will be considered when Ready Reserve assignments are made outside of the 1930 HDT process. Using the Ready Reserve Preference screen in CCS, Flight Attendants may express one of the following four (4) preferences:
➢ Standby Reserve (Request Standby – RSB): Flight Attendants who select this option indicate a desire to be the first assigned to open Standby Reserve assignments. Crew Scheduling will first look for those who have preferenced this option when making Standby Reserve assignments. Reserves with this preference will not be bypassed if they are in line for an open pairing.
➢ Maximum Flying (Request to Fly – RTF): Flight Attendants who select this option indicate a desire to be the first assigned to open pairings; ahead of Flight Attendants who have not preferenced maximum flying. This preference option does not necessarily mean you will be assigned a “high-time” trip.
Selecting the maximum flying option will automatically opt the Flight Attendant to the over 105 hours (unlimited) maximum for the schedule month. This cannot be changed until the next bid month.
➢ Minimum Flying (Request Minimum Flying – RMF): Flight Attendants who select this option indicate a desire to be assigned last, after both Flight Attendants who have preferenced maximum flying or Standby Reserve and Flight Attendants who have no preference on file.
➢ No Preference (Request No Preference – RNP): This is the default selection if a Flight Attendant has not selected a preference. These Flight Attendants will be assigned as described below.
When Crew Scheduling makes assignments to Ready Reserves, they will do so in the following preference order based on whether they are assigning the Reserve to an open pairing or to an open Standby Reserve assignment:
Inputting Ready Reserve Preferences
Inputting Ready Reserve Preferences
IMPORTANT NOTE: ANY PREFERENCES MADE USING THE READY RESERVE PREFERENCE SCREEN, INCLUDING CO-TERMINAL PREFERENCES AND VOLUNTEERING TO WORK INTO DAYS OFF, CAN BE CHANGED THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE BID MONTH AND MULTIPLE TIMES THROUGHOUT THE DAY. KEEP IN MIND, HOWEVER, THE CREW SCHEDULER MAY NOT BE ABLE TO CAPTURE LAST-MINUTE CHANGES MADE TO PREFERENCES BEFORE ASSIGNING A TRIP.
Ready Reserve preferences may be indicated by selecting Ready Reserve Preferencing under the Reserve tab in CCS, as shown in the next image.
Then select the desired “Bid Month” from the drop-down (the current bid month will be the default), as shown in the following image.
Your monthly calendar will be displayed in a list format. It shows your days of availability and days off as a Reserve for that particular bid month, as well as any preferences you have indicated for each day. In the highlighted area in the next image, the Reserve is scheduled to be “RSV Day ON” on the 17th with no preference selected. To select, click on the “Edit” icon to the right.
Three drop-down menus will become active, as shown below, the first of which allows you to enter a Ready Reserve preference for that day.
Below is a closer view of the Ready Reserve preference drop-down menu when opened. You may select “Standby Reserve, Minimum Flying, No Preference or Maximum Flying”. In this example, the Reserve has selected “Maximum Flying”.
Once the selection is made, click the “Save” button. The preference will be updated and displayed as shown below. Again, the example shows a preference for “Maximum Flying.”
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