LOA 14 - Reserve Rotation

LETTER OF AGREEMENT

BETWEEN

UNITED AIRLINES, INC.

AND

THE FLIGHT ATTENDANTS

IN THE SERVICE OF

UNITED AIRLINES, INC.

AS REPRESENTED BY

ASSOCIATION OF FLIGHT ATTENDANTS-CWA, AFL-CIO

This Letter of Agreement is made and entered into in accordance with the Railway Labor Act by and between United Airlines, Inc. (the “Company”) and the Association of Flight Attendants – CWA, AFLCIO (the “Union”). 

WHEREAS during the negotiations between the Company and the Union (collectively, the “parties”) leading to the 2016 – 2021 Agreement (the “Agreement”), the parties agreed upon terms for Flight Attendants who will rotate on Reserve in Bases as set forth in Section 8.A. 

NOW THEREFORE, the parties to this Letter of Agreement hereby agree on the following terms regarding Reserve Rotation.

1. A Reserve pool shall be established at each Base or applicable sub-Base to provide Reserve coverage according to each Base’s (or sub-Base’s) Reserve quota in the following manner: 

1. With the exception of the top twenty-five per cent (25%) of each Base, who are exempt from Reserve rotation, every Flight Attendant will be designated either “A” or “B” for identification. Such letter designation does not necessarily place a Flight Attendant within the Reserve rotation. All Reserve quotas will be assigned from the junior most Flight Attendant upward. 

2. Where an FSL sub-Base exists, FSLs will be designated for Reserve rotation within their sub-Base according to the formula in Paragraph a. above. 

1. FSLs who opt out pursuant to Section 9.D.3.f. will carry with them the designator assigned within the sub-Base; 

2. When the Company offers opt outs in excess of 2% in accordance with Section 9.D.3.f., it may bypass FSL(s) in their designated Reserve rotation month who are requesting to opt out in seniority order if necessary to ensure adequate Reserve coverage within the sub-Base. 

3. At each Base (or sub-Base), the most junior Flight Attendants will serve on Reserve in accordance with their designated letter in the following month:

4. Notwithstanding Paragraphs 1.a. and b. above, all Flight Attendants will serve on continuous Reserve status for five (5) years or until such time as their seniority allows them to be awarded a line of flying. After such five (5) year period, they shall be designated “A” or “B” and will serve on Reserve status in accordance with their seniority and group designation. 

5. Any Flight Attendant who preferences Reserve will be awarded the Reserve line according to her/his seniority. If a Lineholder on A/B rotation does preference a Reserve assignment during her/his Lineholder month, it will not affect her/his assignment to Reserve the following month. 

6. A designated Reserve shall not, by virtue of her/his seniority, force a designated Lineholder into Reserve status. 

2. During the month prior to the bidding of vacations, the “A/B” letter designations will be revised at each Base for the following year to be effective from February through January. 

3. A Flight Attendant who transfers into a Base covered by A/B rotation, shall be designated by the Company as “A” or “B” unless she/he falls within the top twenty-five per cent (25%) of her/his new Domicile on the effective date of the transfer.

4. During the year, should any Base experience a significant imbalance in the relative seniority of the senior Reserves in each group, the MEC President or designee and the WHQSK Manager of Advance Scheduling Operations/designee, by mutual agreement shall take appropriate action to restore a proper balance. 

5. In any given month, the most senior designated Reserves and the most junior Lineholders of the same letter should preference both schedule and Reserve positions. 

6. A Flight Attendant shall be allowed to trade her/his Reserve rotation “A” designation for “B” or vice versa, provided the trade is with another Flight Attendant considered as coming within the Reserve rotation. Once accomplished, however, the Flight Attendant may not trade back to her/his original letter designation for the balance of the bid year unless action is taken pursuant to Paragraph 4. above. 

7. The parties to this Letter of Agreement hereby agree that it shall run concurrently with the 2016.2021 Agreement, and shall be concurrently subject to the provisions pertaining to duration and amendment contained therein. 

The parties hereto have signed this Letter of Agreement this 28th day of August, 2016.