Seniority Option (Section 7.O.) 

Under the following circumstances, a Reserve may be opted out of an assigned work position by a more senior Flight Attendant (also known as “Senior Opting”). This is not the same as displacement. 

➢ At the airport, only the open bid position assigned to the Reserve is available for seniority option. 

➢ If a more senior Flight Attendant opts for the open bid position, the Reserve assumes the position vacated by the more senior Flight Attendant. 

➢ The Reserve may only be opted out of a position once, and the seniority option can occur only at the beginning of a pairing after Flight Attendant boarding time and before preflight duties begin. 

➢ Reserves assigned to a different pairing number will not be opted out of the position unless the pairing contains identical flight segments to the pairing of the more senior Flight Attendant. 

➢ A LQ Reserve assigned to a LQ position may only be opted by a more senior LQ Flight Attendant who is in the same primary language sub-base for that month. 

• Reserves not qualified in the designated language assigned to a LQ position may be opted by a more senior Flight Attendant. 

➢ An International Purser Reserve can only be opted by a senior International Purser. 

• When a Reserve that is not part of the International Purser sub-base is assigned to an International Purser position, an International Purser will have priority over a Flight Attendant who is not part of the International Purser sub-base to senior opt that Reserve.

➢ A Reserve who picks up a trip on a day off from Open Time cannot be senior opted except in the case of a domestic Purser position, and in this case, only by a more senior Flight Attendant on the same pairing or on a pairing with identical flight segments. A Reserve who picks up a trip on a day off from another Flight Attendant cannot be senior opted. 

• Move-Up Lineholders and Reserves on days off will be designated with the Lineholder code (LH) in the far-right column of the crew list display. 

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