Contract 2012 – Implementation Schedule

As with most wholesale changes to the PWA, past and present, not all provisions of the TA, upon ratification, will be effective on July 1, 2012. Provisions such as increases to pay rates, per diem, and DC contributions become effective on the dates specified in the PWA. Other changes will require extensive programming to implement and will be phased in over the 12 months following the effective date of the PWA.

MOU #9 – Deferred Implementation provides a table indicating those provisions whose implementation will be phased in over time. Prior to its deferred effective date, the subject matter of each such provision will be governed by and administered in accordance with the PWA language and practice, if any, in existence immediately prior to July 1, 2012. Such prior language will remain in force and effect and will remain a part of the PWA until deleted or replaced under MOU #9. All other provisions in the PWA are effective on July 1, 2012, unless otherwise specified.

Each effective date shown below is the latest date on which the related provision will become effective. Each provision will be implemented as soon as the requisite programming can be completed. You can expect to receive a Scheduling Alert well in advance of each provision’s implementation with further details.
Please refer to the TA language and/or the related Negotiators’ Notepad for details about the provisions outlined below.
Reserve Guarantee
 The increase to reserve guarantee from 70:00 to 72:00 – 80:00 (ALV – 2:00) will be effective on July 1, 2012
 The increase to the reserve guarantee of 1:00 for each additional short call above the maximum permitted will not be effective until March 2, 2013
 The ability of a reserve pilot to be awarded an additional on-call day(s) with a corresponding increase of a reserve pro rata share to his reserve guarantee will become effective May 1, 2013
 A specially created reserve line will continue to have a guarantee of 1/18 of the reserve guarantee until October 1, 2012

Lodging and Expenses
 The availability of a hotel room upon request for a pilot who lives more than 50 straight line miles from the training center and who is undergoing CQ training will become effective January 1, 2013
Vacation
 The following vacation provisions will become effective with the 2013-2014 vacation year:
o Increase from 3:00 to 3:15 per vacation day
o Bidding for five separate vacation periods for a pilot who has five weeks of
vacation
o Increase in vacation allotment from at least one vacation per week to no less
than one percent of total yearly vacations each week
o Availability of the vacation week that spans the last Sunday in March
through the first Saturday in April
 Vacation Any will be implemented as soon as it becomes available in PBS
Deadhead
 The enhanced seating assignments for a pilot who is assigned to deadhead on a flight segment of at least 3:45 in a duty period greater than 10 hours will become effective September 1, 2012
 The change in report time for all on-line domestic deadhead to 60 minutes will be effective September 1, 2012
Training
 The increase in distributed training pay from one minute of pay for every three minutes of run time to one minute of pay for every two minutes of run time will be effective July 1, 2012
 The increase in CQ and other miscellaneous types of training from 3:15 to 3:45 per day will be effective January 1, 2013
 The increase to the monthly guarantee for a Seniority List Instructor from 15 to 17 SLI duty periods will be effective August 1, 2012
 The requirement for a minimum of two days off during any seven consecutive days of training will be effective September 1, 2012
Hours of Service
 Average Daily Guarantee of 4:30 per calendar day will be effective November 1, 2012.
 The increase in the number of X-days at ALVs below 77:00 (reserve guarantee below 75:00) and in overstaffed categories will be effective October 1, 2012.

Leaves of Absence
 Known personal leaves will be effective September 1, 2012.
Sick Leave
The various changes to sick leave will be phased in over the next 12 months.  Effective July 1, 2012:
o Expanded eligibility for sick leave due to dental care
o Elimination of Sick Leave Monitoring Program
o Ability for a Chief Pilot to enquire regarding the medical reason for a
pilot’s use of sick leave when an individual circumstance, other than the amount of sick leave used by the pilot or the frequency of his sick occurrences, gives him a good faith basis to do so
o Reimbursement of any reasonable expense incurred by the pilot in obtaining a doctor’s certificate required by the Company
o Restriction of the Company’s ability of a pilot to release his medical records to a Company-designated doctor to times when such an individual circumstance exists
o Requirement to allow a pilot who has exhausted his sick leave no less than seven days to confirm that he will be unavailable for the remaining portion of his line before removing from that line
 Effective January 1, 2013:
o Elimination of 75% pay for sick leave and the associated rolling three-year
bank
o Requirement to verify individual sick leave occurrence that is 15 days or
longer
o Ability for a pilot who returns from disability and who has exhausted his
sick leave hours for the current sick leave year to elect to transfer up to 50
hours from the subsequent sick leave year accrual  Effective June 1, 2013:
o Sick leave accrual increase to 270 hours for a pilot with at least 20 years of service
o Notification requirement when sick or well
o Increase in pay for known sick or accident leave to the greater of a pro rata
portion of the ALV or reserve guarantee or the pilot’s shadow award in
PBS
o Shadow bidding for known sick/accident leave
o Early return from known sick/accident leave
o Calling in well mid-rotation and sick leave bank replenishment o Pilot option to verify sick at any time
o Requirement to verify sick after 100 hours

Filling of Vacancies
 The increase to the top end of the LCW from 82:00 to 84:00 will be effective October 1, 2012. Until that time, the ALV for a position will be limited to 82:00
 The TLV, which is a 12-month rolling average of the ALV will increase from 74:00 – 79:00 to 75:00 – 80:00 on July 1, 2013
 Effective October 1, 2012, all known absences will be considered in the staffing formula to determine the number of pilots required in a position
Scheduling
 Effective September 1, 2012, the extension of an asterisk rotation in the following month’s bid package will be limited to one additional calendar day
 The changes to the bid period start and end dates will be effective for the first time in the April 2013 bid period, which will be April 1 – May 1
 Effective August 1, 2012, bidding for initial lines of time in PBS will be moved up so as to open at 1800 on the 4th of the prior month and close at 1800 on the 11th of the prior month
 The implementation of the RLL line guarantee and corresponding availability will be available effective with the August 2012 bid period
 Elimination of the practice known as “Trip Parking” in the Pilot to Pilot Swap Board will be effective October 1, 2012
 Changes to max reserve and the point at which a reserve pilot is FULL will be effective December 1, 2012
 The seventh short call to which a pilot may be converted in a bid period in which the ALV is 77:00 or higher (reserve guarantee 75:00 or greater) will be effective concurrently with the implementation of the new FARs which reduce the maximum allowable length of a short call to 14 hours

As previously stated, any provision of the TA that is not specifically addressed in MOU #9 and this Notepad or is otherwise stated in the PWA to be effective on a particular date, will be effective on July 1, 2012.