Recent changes to the flight schedules, movement of Flight Attendant positions out of CVG and into GSO and JFK and higher line values associated with the recent 2006 Letter of Agreement have unfortunately resulted in some flight attendants being returned to Reserve status.  The Company and the IBT have recently clarified reserve availability language and in order to ensure everyone is on the same page this is what you can expect.

In the past the Company has required Reserve Flight Attendants to serve more than one availability window during a day in which they completed a trip and were later scheduled to begin a window.  The IBT position was that this practice caused the Reserve Flight Attendants to serve two periods of availability.  We argued a Flight Attendant who began a duty period at an outstation on a day they were scheduled to have a window of reserve should not have to serve the later window of reserve.  For example:  A Flight Attendant reporting for the 3^rd day of a three day trip may be scheduled to report in the outstation at 0800 a.m.  She may arrive at her base at 10:00 a.m. and be scheduled for a JD window later that day.  Your reserve availability window will now be deemed to have begun at 0800 a.m. Scheduling will assign a window that closely matches your report time but in any event you will not be required to remain on call beyond 12 hours from the report time. If they assign a window that releases earlier your release time would be earlier.   

If on the other hand you are scheduled to release from a trip DURING a scheduled reserve window your reserve window will be considered to have begun as scheduled if it is earlier than your report time at an outstation.  For instance, if you are scheduled on a BD window from 0400 a.m.  to 4:00 p.m. on the last day of a 3 day trip and you report at the outstation at 1000 a.m. your availability window will still close as scheduled at 4 p.m.

If you were scheduled for a window that starts at 10:00 a.m. and your report time at the outstation is 6:00 a.m. your window of availability will end at 6:00 p.m.  

Keep in mind that when you return from a trip during a window you may be called back in, however you are still entitled to the appropriate call out time, 90 minutes in CVG, MCO and GSO, or 2 hours in JFK and Schedulers must comply with inverse seniority order language dependent upon number of days of availability.