AT765517 - Airline Operations - Flight Attendants’ Long Haul - Qantas Airways Limited - Award 2000 [Transitional]
PART 6 - HOURS OF WORK, REST BREAKS AND OVERTIME
18. ALLOCATION AND SCHEDULING OF DUTY
18.1 Bid period
18.1.1 Bid periods will be of 56 days duration.
18.1.2 For the purpose of rostering, bid lines will be constructed as flying lines and reserve lines.
18.1.3 Patterns may be allocated to management flight attendants as required by the Company prior to the determination of flying line requirements.
18.2 Flying lines
18.2.1 The Company will determine the number of flying lines for each category at each base in a bid period as follows:
18.2.1(a) duty hour credits for all known flying in that category from that base will be divided by 187 to determine the number of initial flying lines;
18.2.1(b) duty hour credits applicable to approved leave and known ground duty commitment of flight attendants eligible to hold a flying line will be determined and aggregated. This aggregate will be divided by 187 to determine further flying lines;
18.2.1(c) the process of determining further flying lines to satisfy all approved leave and ground duty commitments will continue until all flying line holders are known.
18.2.2 The 187 divisor may be increased, for any or all categories, by hourly increments up to 193 duty hour credits for a maximum of three bid periods in any ten bid periods standing alone. If the 187 divisor is increased, any reference to 187 elsewhere in this award will also be increased and any reference to 149 in this award will be increased proportionately to 155.
18.2.3 All flying lines will be constructed in the range from 182.3 duty hour credits to 193 duty hour credits if the divisor is 187. If the divisor is increased under 18.2.2 the minimum and maximum hours for flying line construction will be increased proportionately.
18.3 Period between patterns
The period between patterns must be not less than fifty per cent of the planned days of the preceding pattern with a minimum of one day. Other than for one day patterns any half days in this calculation will be disregarded. The parties may agree to vary the minimum pattern gap for specific patterns.
18.4 Allocation of flying and reserve lines
18.4.1 The Company will roster flight attendants for duty in accordance with the bidding system agreed from time to time between the parties. Matters to be agreed include (but are not limited to):
Matters in dispute will be resolved in accordance with 10.2 of the award.
18.4.2 A flight attendant allocated to a category and base who will be qualified and available in that category and base on or before the first day of a bid period will be eligible to hold a flying or reserve line.
18.4.3 A flight attendant will be designated as either a Flying Line Holder or a Reserve Line Holder as determined by the Company and confirmed to the flight attendant.
18.4.4 The Company will determine which flight attendants are designated as flying line holders by selecting the number of flight attendants by category and base determined under 18.2.1 who have not been awarded a reserve line and who have otherwise most recently been allocated as reserve line holders. The number of reserve lines awarded in a category in a bid period must not exceed the number of reserve line holders required per bid period in that category.
18.4.5 Flight attendants, other than those designated as flying line holders, will be designated as reserve line holders and will be those flight attendants by base and category who have been awarded a reserve line and, if then necessary, those flight attendants allocated to a reserve line least recently.
18.4.6 For the purpose of determining which flight attendants were allocated a reserve line least recently:
18.4.6(a) A flight attendant who performs a portion of a reserve line in excess of 28 days in a bid period will be considered to have been a reserve line holder for that bid period.
18.4.6(b) A flight attendant on completion of initial training will be considered to be a reserve line holder for that period during which the initial training was completed.
18.4.7 A flying line must not be awarded to a flight attendant who:
unless there is evidence satisfactory to the Company that he or she will be qualified and available in that category and base on or before the first day of the bid period.
18.4.8 No later than five days prior to the bid period commencing, each flight attendant must be given details of the bid line he or she has been awarded.
18.5 Flying of patterns
18.5.1 Except for those reasons agreed between the parties in accordance with 18.4.1, a flying line holder must fly each pattern he/she is allocated.
18.5.2 Except for those reasons agreed between the parties in accordance with 18.4.1, a reserve line holder must fly each pattern he or she is allocated.
18.6 Bid period limitations
18.6.1 A flight attendant must not be planned to exceed 193 duty hour credits in a 56 day bid period.
18.6.2 A flight attendant may be required to exceed 193 duty hour credits in a bid period:
18.6.2(a) if his or her last pattern in the bid period is delayed or changed after he or she has reported at base for that pattern; or
18.6.2(b) if he/she is a reserve line holder in the current bid period and is assigned a pattern in that bid period which carries over into the next bid period and causes overprojection in that next bid period.
18.6.3 A flight attendant may elect to exceed 193 duty hour credits but must not project himself or herself in excess of 200 duty hour credits without the approval of the Company.
18.6.4 A flight attendant who is not eligible to become a Flying Line Holder and who becomes a Reserve Line Holder for portion of a bid period must have his or her bid period limitations reduced, on a pro rata basis, for each day he or she was not available.
18.7 Open time
Open time will be allocated in accordance with the methodology agreed in accordance with 18.4.1
