General Grievance Information

If you are called into a meeting with your Supervisor, and that meeting could lead to possible disciplinary action, before your meeting: Contact a Union Representative immediately and have one with you.

Continental Contract

ExpressJet Contract

For ExpressJet Flight Attendants -

Just a Few Pointers: 

• Make sure you turn in your liquor envelopes at the end of each pairing
• Check to see that your contact numbers are correct
• Print your master schedule out on the first day of each bid period
• When you are on hold for a period longer than 30 minutes with scheduling please notify your union reps. also, if possible bring a copy of the cell phone bill (please fill free to block out all calls and information other than name and the call or calls involved)
• Check your number on the system seniority list.  There is a grievance that is going to be heard on Monday, August 18th. More information when available.

Lineholders: You might want to read/know

For reassignment

Section 5.N.6

If a flight attendant’s duty period is modified as a result of a reassignment caused by an operational problem or cancellation, that affected duty period shall be credited the greater of:

1. The sum of the originally scheduled block times (including any deadhead time) for the segments in that affected duty period, or;
2. The sum of the actual block times (including any deadhead time) of the segments flown during that affected duty period . 

Section 4.N.2  

Lineholder Trip Credit Value

1. Except as specified in N.2., below, a flight attendant’s trip pay shall be the greater of the scheduled (original trip value) or actual block time (including any deadhead time), calculated by flight segment.
2. If a flight attendants duty period is modified as a result of a reassignment caused by an operational problem or cancellation, that affected duty period shall be credited the greater of:
1. the sum of the originally scheduled block times (including any deadhead time) for the segments in that affected duty period, or;
2. the sum of the actual block times (including any deadhead time), of the segment(s) flown during that affected duty period .

Section 5.N.4

1. Whenever a loss of flying occurs during trip operation, it will be the flight attendant’s responsibility to contact the appropriate Crew Scheduler for potential reassignment .

Section 5.O

O RX Days

1. An RX day will be placed on a lineholder’s schedule when her/ his trip has been modified or cancelled.
2. A lineholder on an RX day will be assigned a trip or a 10-hour phone availability period
3. A lineholder on an RX day will have a phone availability period for an RX day, or series of RX days, that will start 2 hours prior to the report time of her/his original trip . 

Example: A lineholder has a 4-day trip with a report time of 0800. The trip is subsequently cancelled and she/he is given RX days on the same days she/he was scheduled to fly. The RX phone availability period for each remaining RX day will start at 0600 LT.

4. A lineholder on an RX day who is notified of a trip assignment prior to the start of her/his phone availability period is released until report time for that trip and is no longer phone liable.
5. The phone availability period on the last day of a series of RX days will end no later than the original trip termination time
6. A line holder on an RX day must report for duty within 2 hoursfrom the time Crew Scheduling notifies the flight attendant of an assignment A line holder on an RX day will have 20 minutes to return Crew Scheduling’s phone call to accept the assignment.
7. A lineholder on RX days will not be assigned Airport Alert duty .

Reserves: You might want to read/know

Section 5.T.13

13. A reserve flight attendant must call Crew Scheduling to remove herself/himself from duty when ill A separate call is required on each scheduled duty day on which the reserve is ill, unless the reserve is aware that the illness will prevent working for multiple duty days, in which case a minimum of call for each block of duty days on which the reserve is ill is required