Originally Posted by
Adlerdriver
Yes, they do. Did you really miss this in your evaluation of the TA? Perhaps this is the first of many reasons for you to start doubting your "yes" vote.
Remember this statement in the new CBA?
Regardless of a passenger carrier’s nomenclature or hierarchy for
classes of service, a Flat Bed Seat satisfies the higher class of
service requirements set forth in this Section.
That means if you're deadheading to HKG on AA, you get business class since it lays flat (even if it's over 16 hour duty day). The only time you get first class is if business doesn't lay flat. That was the whole point of that BS concession we gave up.
So, I guess I should clarify my previous statement. The only way we'll see FC on AA is if we deviate and somehow have extra bank to cover the FC ticket.
Maybe my problem is I actually read the whole contract instead of relying on the latest screech fest on ACP. Section 8.A.5.c doesn't end at i. in my copy of the CBA. If you are scheduled on your AA 777 with three classes of service on a flight of 16 hours or more and you aren't sitting in first, you either A. should have a trip bank credited with the cost of a first class ticket, or B. have an easy grievence.
I will be interested to see how this part of the new CBA is actually applied. So far, I've seen no actual data points that prove FedEx pilots will no longer be sitting in first class when our CBA states that a first class ticket "shall" be the priority.