Reserve Information

March 15, 2019 - Although there have already been several E-Lines articles published since October 1st  addressing the Vacation Fly Through provisions of our JCBA (11/06/18, 11/27/18, 01/30/19), we have continued to press for clarification on how Operational Fly-Through requests made after the vacation period has started are to be processed. As a reminder, Operational Fly Through occurs when a Flight Attendant elects to fly through her/his vacation any time after schedules for a given month have been awarded. This includes during the current schedule month

March 15, 2019 - MEC Reserve Committee’s most recent report, March, 2019 detailing the activities of the Reserve Committee has been published on unitedafa.org.

March 1, 2019 - There has been some recent confusion regarding the types of notification Flight Attendants will receive when they have been moved up into a line of flying from Reserve status.

February 23, 2019 - There have been a number of questions regarding the process of assigning open Language Qualified (LQ) positions to Reserves when there is no Language Qualified Reserve who speaks the specific language associated with the open pairing and who is legal and available in the specific language sub-base.

February 19, 2019 - Reserve Flight Attendants who have questions regarding the application of the language in Section 7.O. of our JCBA are encouraged to review the circumstances under which a Reserve can be senior opted from her/his position

February 9, 2019 - During this past week, the company deployed a fix to the International Purser Reserve displays in CCS.

February 9, 2019 - Reserve Flight Attendants are strongly encouraged to directly access CCS using a web browser when checking their Master Schedule and/or when ascertaining their next-day assignment after 1930 HDT.

February 6, 2019 - The Reserve Preferencing and clean-up process occurs each evening between 1700 and 1930 HDT for pairings with check-ins on the following day. Section 8.D.11. of our JCBA provides that Reserves assigned as part of this process shall be released to check-in and shall not be subject to displacement from the pairing by a Lineholder.

January 18, 2019 - When Reserve Preferencing assignments began for the January bid month, we began receiving questions from Flight Attendants who believed they may have been assigned out of time accrued order.

January 4, 2019 - We had another successful year in the granting of Christmas Wish List (CWL) requests for Reserves. It’s important we recognize a number of people behind the scenes who made the granting of these requests possible