Reserve/Availability Numbers

[jimntx]

I used to be able to access the headcount for each base on the Flight Service website--particularly, the breakdown between active and inactive flight attendants. With the latest "improvement" to the website, I can only find the headcount and active/inactive breakdown for SLT.

If you can find this info for your base, I would appreciate it if you would post it here. The number of bid positions by base is on the Allocations page of the bidsheet, and I can look at the Bid Award table to determine how many people in each base are on reserve and availability. But, the numbers are not meaningful unless you know the number of active f/as in the base because I'm interested in the percentage of RSV/AVBL awards vs. total active f/as in the base.

Here's what I'm talking about. These are the numbers for SLT.

December, 2008:
Total active f/as: 379
No. of bid positions: 242
No. on Reserve: 57
No. on Availability: 53

Percentage of active f/as on rsv/avail. combined: 29.02%

January, 2009:
Total active f/as: 377
No. of bid positions: 252
No. on Reserve: 54
No. on Availability: 63 (!!!)

Percentage of active f/as on rsv/avail. combined: 31.03% This is way too high. If you add the vacation relief holders to the total, it is 33% of the active base.

I'm on reserve in December. With only 4 days left on call, I have a grand total of 25.27 hours in my GTD, and 5 hours of that was sitting standby at the airport (or to be honest, I should say sleeping standby at the airport ). I'm on availability in January. Other than the trips pre-plotted on my schedule, I won't be flying. Because my pre-plotted trips are all in the second half of the month, and all 9 of my AVBL days are in the first 10 days of the month, there is no point in me trying to max out.

 

[FA Mikey]

I have a friend on reserve here in Miami with 29 hours. I dont know if it is due to a larger reserve pool or fewer people calling in sick.

 

[jimntx]

It's not so much the larger reserve pool as it is the fact that there are so many more active f/as than there are bid positions. With so many people on availability because they can't even hold vacation relief, and so many of those practically coming to blows to self-plot the few trips in Open Time so they can max out (as if), there is nothing left for the reserves to fly.

Let's face it, availability is nothing more than glorified reserve. Particularly now, when it is all but impossible to max out early.

 

[jimntx]

Ok, I gave you people 4 whole hours to stop your lives and look up the information I wanted. I'm tired of waiting. Actually, it occurred to me that I could approximate the numbers I needed.

I made the following assumptions:
1. Bid positions stated on the Allocation sheet per base are correct and unchanged from when the bid sheets were published.
2. Information provided in the Bid Table on the flight service website is accurate (a big assumption).
3. For each base: Bid positions + no. of people on reserve + No. of people holding vacation relief + no. of people on availability =
active flight attendants in that base.
(This is not totally accurate, but pretty close. For instance according to the Flight Service website, there are 377 active f/as in SLT. The above calculation provided a total of 375. I'm assuming that the other two are active, but nobid (special assignment, missed epts, etc.).

For anyone who might think that the flying is not balanced across the system (as I did, quite frankly), it is surprisingly balanced for domestic flying.

The least percentage of active f/as not holding a line (reserves + vacation reliefs + availability) varies from a low of 31.04% in DFW-D to a high of 35.68% in SFO-D. BOS-D comes in at 34.38%. All other domestic bases were higher than DFW-D, but below 33%.

The concern goes back to the fact that in almost every domestic base, over 30% of the active f/as are not holding a line for January, 2009. If you take out the vacation reliefs and look at just reserves + availability. DFW-D is still at 28.34% (they had the highest %-age of people taking vacation in Jan.) and SFO-D only drops to 33.02%.

Adding all the bases together, 29.98% of the active f/as are either on reserve or availability--i.e., being paid guarantee, but not flying anything close to guarantee (as far as I can determine). As the song say, something's got to give.

 

[kirkpatrick]

I used to be able to access the headcount for each base on the Flight Service website--particularly, the breakdown between active and inactive flight attendants.

Jim, I believe the info you want is on the APFA website. This doesn't format properly but here it is:

FLIGHT ATTENDANT HEADCOUNT BY BASE FOR THE CONTRACTUAL MONTH OF DECEMBER 2008

BASE TOTAL ACTIVE TOTAL INACTIVE TOTAL AVAILABLE

BOS 362 33 395
DCA 286 34 320
DFW 2400 169 2569
LAX 1018 98 1116
LGA 1270 108 1378
MIA 815 99 914
ORD 1445 114 1559
SFO 628 87 715
SLT 374 32 406
TOTAL 8598 774 9372


BOS-I 301 22 323
DCA-I 56 5 61
IDF-I 1324 63 1387
LAX-I 533 48 581
JFK-I 1910 102 2012
IMA-I 1827 80 1907
IOR-I 1288 58 1346
RDU-I 81 7 88
SFO-I 31 2 33
TOTAL 7351 387 7738

SYSTEM TOTAL 15949 1161 17110

Here's the link:[post="0"]http://www.apfa.org/content/view/736/142/[/post]

 

[kirkpatrick]

I have a friend on reserve here in Miami with 29 hours. I dont know if it is due to a larger reserve pool or fewer people calling in sick.

I have 29:20 and four more duty days, the 28th - 31st. I think the main reason for the glut of people is the fact that the Overage Leave people had to come back for Dec and Jan. When they go back on OVL Feb 1 we'll lose approximately 450 (I can't readily find the file with the exact numbers).

 

[jimntx]

Mark, if the info from the APFA website is accurate then there are a whole bunch of people coming back in January that were neither active nor inactive in December. Or, the base info posted on the Flight Service website was incorrect. Just a couple of discrepancies. Plus, my numbers are from the January bid awards table.

1. According to the info on the SLT base pages on the Flight Service website, we had 379 active flight attendants and 30 inactive in December or a total of 409. According to the APFA we only had 374 active and 32 inactive with a total of 406.
2. APFA has a DFW active total of 2400 in December, yet there are 2445 awards for January (bid positions + vacation relief + reserve + availability). I'm assuming that every bid position has a name/body attached to it at this point. There are also 145 f/as on the DFW-D table which are shown as No Bid (some inactive, but not all. I've never found anyone in the company or the union who can explain exactly what the status of a No Bid f/a is. "Well, some are on a leave of some kind, some just didn't bid, some missed EPTs grace month, some are in pre-termination status, [and so on and so forth].")
3. The numbers from the Bid award table on the Flight service website are higher for every base than what the APFA numbers show. The 3-month leaves were over December 1st. As far as I know, there weren't any 4-month leaves. Where are these people coming from? They can't be coming off inactive status because the numbers still wouldn't add up.

Of course, silly me. All the years I was at Texaco, we knew on a daily basis how many U.S. employees we had, and the company's numbers and the union's numbers agreed "to the penny."
(Only the refinery workers were unionized.) I guess it is rash of me to expect the same at AA.

 

[L1011Ret]

I have 29:20 and four more duty days, the 28th - 31st. I think the main reason for the glut of people is the fact that the Overage Leave people had to come back for Dec and Jan. When they go back on OVL Feb 1 we'll lose approximately 450 (I can't readily find the file with the exact numbers).

My spouse will return from her current trip with a little over 50 hours. She will have the last 3 days to be assigned another trip,

 

[nbmcg01]

Would love to hear from Garfield as to the call offs this year.

 

[Flyboy4u]

Would love to hear from Garfield as to the call offs this year.

Garfield? Who's that? Haven't seen a post from him in a long time, and I really enjoyed his information.

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

Jim, I believe the info you want is on the APFA website. This doesn't format properly but here it is:

FLIGHT ATTENDANT HEADCOUNT BY BASE FOR THE CONTRACTUAL MONTH OF DECEMBER 2008

BASE TOTAL ACTIVE TOTAL INACTIVE TOTAL AVAILABLE

BOS 362 33 395
DCA 286 34 320
DFW 2400 169 2569
LAX 1018 98 1116
LGA 1270 108 1378
MIA 815 99 914
ORD 1445 114 1559
SFO 628 87 715
SLT 374 32 406
TOTAL 8598 774 9372


BOS-I 301 22 323
DCA-I 56 5 61
IDF-I 1324 63 1387
LAX-I 533 48 581
JFK-I 1910 102 2012
IMA-I 1827 80 1907
IOR-I 1288 58 1346
RDU-I 81 7 88
SFO-I 31 2 33
TOTAL 7351 387 7738

SYSTEM TOTAL 15949 1161 17110

Here's the link:[post="0"]http://www.apfa.org/content/view/736/142/[/post]

Ah HA' !!

Just as I expected.

JFK-I............."THE" biggest international base, in the company.
The base where the REAL action is !!!


Boy, it must be a BITC*, riding around in those "trip-7's", and spending time shopping in "places" like NYC/LON/PAR....

EZE, RIO shoppin'....any good ???



Kirkpatrick,.........thanx for the info

 

[FA Mikey]

True JFK is the largest by US flight attendant numbers, if you add all the FN flying, Miami eclipse's JFK. You will also see more 777's in and out of Miami VS JFK. If you ever want to see the largest grouping of 777's, check out LHR in the morning lined up both sides of terminal 3.

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

True JFK is the largest by US flight attendant numbers, if you add all the FN flying, Miami eclipse's JFK. You will also see more 777's in and out of Miami VS JFK. If you ever want to see the largest grouping of 777's, check out LHR in the morning lined up both sides of terminal 3.

That sounds realistic to me Mikey(LHR-am).

Probably

1-BOS
2-JFK
2-ORD
1-MIA
1-DFW
1-LAX
(RDU going into LHR yet)?

 

[CubsFanJohn]

Yes RDU has been going into LHR since March 30th.

That sounds realistic to me Mikey(LHR-am).

Probably

1-BOS
2-JFK
2-ORD
1-MIA
1-DFW
1-LAX
(RDU going into LHR yet)?

 

[BigBangTheory]

Garfield? Who's that? Haven't seen a post from him in a long time, and I really enjoyed his information.

A f/a filed a R32 against him and this was not the first one filed against him. He was let go from employment at AA.