Originally Posted by
Rock
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.
I hope I'm wrong about this a Rock, but unfortunately I really don't think I am. Rather than relying on any screeching, I simply read the actual language in both sections. This statement contains universal language clearly designed to override any subsequent language in this section of the contract.
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.
Since ANY seat other than coach is a result of "higher class of service requirements".....and
Since a flat bed seat now satisfies those requirements....and
Since this statement removes ANY significance we might assign to the "nomenclature or hierarchy" of a particular seat (i.e. First class or Business class).....
Therefore, the language related to the list of priorities for seating on a 16 hour duty day deadhead transferred from the old contract to the new CBA has effectively been nullified unless a flat bed seat is
only available in first class.
I know there are deadheads to HKG via DFW (+16 hours of duty) which will fall under this provision in the January 777 bid pack, maybe in December as well. Maybe an APCer will get one and should be able to settle this question pretty quickly.