Common use of BLOCK CONSTRUCTION Clause in Contracts

BLOCK CONSTRUCTION. The production and amendment of the schedule will be the responsibility of the Chief Pilot or his designate, with the participation of the designated to ensure the provisions of the Agreement are met. The schedule will be constructed ensuring all operational requirements of the Company are met. This shall take into account the qualifications and availability of the Pilots, their seniority and scheduling preferences while adhering to the scheduling provisions of this Agreement. Requests will be awarded in accordance with seniority. On or before Local on the fifteenth of each Month, the Company will provide the Pilots with the bidding package, which will contain the following: pairings containing all known flying and assigned credit to the pairing for their particular aircraft names and dates of known vacation; block overlap; training; check rides; ground school periods; approved leaves of absence; Days; any extra reserve assignments; any temporary assignments; pairing restrictions or limitations, due to rules or regulations, required qualification or safety considerations; any other information that may be required for block building, remaining statutory holidays; available vacation allotments; Pilots shall submit via scheduling preferences as per the Association Scheduling System (ASS). The ASS must submit the completed schedule to the Company on or before the twenty-fourth of the Month by Except as provided in Section blocks altered due to circumstances beyond the Company’s control will not affect previously scheduled A Pilot may request immediately before and/or after his scheduled annual vacation or statutory holidays with the following conditions: Around three (3) or more statutory holidays, two (2) on either side of the statutory holidays will be given seniority bidding rights with those statutory holidays. Around less than three (3) statutory holiday days, only one

BLOCK CONSTRUCTION. The production and amendment of the schedule will be the responsibility of the Chief Pilot or his designate, with the participation of the designated to ensure the provisions of the Agreement are met. The schedule will be constructed ensuring all operational requirements of the Company are met. This shall take into account the qualifications and availability of the Pilots, their seniority and scheduling preferences while adhering to the scheduling provisions of this Agreement. Requests will be awarded in accordance with seniority. On or before Local five (1 Local) on the fifteenth (1 of each Monthmonth, the Company will provide the Pilots with the bidding package, which will contain the following: pairings containing all known flying and assigned credit to the pairing for their particular aircraft names and dates of known vacation; , block overlap; , training; , check rides; , ground school periods; , approved leaves of absence; Days; , Association business flight releases, any extra reserve assignments; , any temporary assignments; , pairing restrictions or limitations, due to rules or regulations, required qualification or safety considerations; , any other information that may be required for block building, remaining statutory holidays; available vacation allotments; . Pilots shall submit via completed Block Request Forms for scheduling preferences as per the Association Scheduling System (ASS). The ASS must submit the completed schedule to the Company no later than five Local) on or before the twenty-fourth first of the Month by month previous to the monthly block period affected. Except as provided in Section blocks altered due to circumstances beyond the Company’s control will not affect previously scheduled Guaranteed Days Off. A Pilot may request Guaranteed Days Off immediately before and/or after his scheduled annual vacation Vacation or statutory holidays Statutory Holidays with the following conditions: A is always to be considered as part of vacation Around three (3) or more statutory holidaysSTAT days, two (2) on either side of the statutory holidays will be given seniority bidding rights with those statutory holidays. Around less than three (3) statutory holiday STAT days, only oneone (1) will be given seniority bidding rights with those A Pilot assigned duty on a Guaranteed Day Off will be paid in accordance with Section and will be granted another that must be bid by the Pilot in his next monthly block. Extra not bid in the next monthly block will be forfeited. Bid not awarded will be carried forward into the next consecutive monthly block by the Vacation periods, Statutory Holidays, block overlap, recurrent training, check rides, ground school periods, credit time and flight assignments for line indoctrination, and Association flight release Days) will be placed on a pilot's block prior to any requests. There will be a minimum scheduled off duty period of ten (10) hours between any two duty periods. This may be reduced to a minimum of nine (9) hours and fifteen (15) minutes with the consent of the Association. Individual pilot schedules (blocks) will be built up to a maximum of six