Originally Posted by
echelon
Shouldn't the trailing line value prevent them from doing that? Or at least prevent them from doing it often?
I 100% agree though that without proper staffing the whole thing falls apart. Currently they are allowed a flex month for every month in which there are enough block hours for it to matter, and now as a union we have graciously allowed them to staff with 200% premium as well (not that they need it when 150% is good enough).
I'd suggest reading the language. I am not a lawyer so I could be misinterpreting the language. Giving it another look it does appear the average line value during a flex month could be pushed to 88 hours. This month for August it is 86 hours. PBS can't make trips disappear. At SkyWest when trips were forced onto your line the symbol CN appeared. Company Needs. I don't know what the mechanism will be called here at AS but I am sure it will exist.
I did not include the flex up language which has a lot of caveats for 6 months max and a given number of hours 3 hour max per month, etc... Here is the language:
Range: Bid Blocks of Time will be arranged to give the maximum number of Pilots a Bid Block that will be constructed between seventy-five (75:00) and eighty-five hours (85:00), or as set forth in Section 12.E.1.a [Flex Up Months]subject to Section 12.E.1. [Pay and Flight Time Credit] or as agreed to by the parties per Section 23.A.2.b.(2).
Average Line Value (ALV): The ALV is the number of all known Credit Hours, to include pre-assigned Credit, established by the Company that is the projected average of all Bid Block holder PBS awards for a Base Position in a Bid Period. The ALV shall be between seventy-two hours (72:00) and eighty five hours (85:00). A PBS solution must remain plus two hours (2:00) and minus one hour (1:00) of the published ALV