Common use of Vacation Availability Clause in Contracts

Vacation Availability. 1. The Company will make adequate weeks of vacation available so that all earned vacation can be awarded. Except as noted in paragraph 2., below, at least one week of vacation will be available for bid and award each week of the year in each domicile. 2. Prior to October 1st of each year, the Company will meet and confer with the LEC President, or her/his designee, regarding anticipated vacation blackout periods for the following calendar year. After publication of the vacation blackout periods, the number of vacation blackout periods will not be increased. 3. Vacation bids for the following calendar year will open on October 1, and close each week during the month of November. The most senior Flight Attendants will be required to bid first. Twenty-five percent (25%) of the Flight Attendants at a domicile will bid each week. The award of the vacation bids will be published each week during the month of November so as to afford more junior Flight Attendants the opportunity to bid the remaining available vacation periods. 4. A Flight Attendant on a leave of absence will be allowed to bid for vacation. 5. A Flight Attendant with two (2) or more weeks may bid to split her/his vacation into one-week periods or bid to take consecutive weeks. 6. Vacation bids will be awarded on the basis of seniority. 7. Final vacation awards will be posted by December 1. A Flight Attendant who fails to bid a sufficient amount of vacation will be assigned vacation at Company discretion. 8. At least once a month, any vacation weeks that are available during the rest of the year will be posted electronically, provided that the Company may, should staffing require, withhold for a 45-day period vacation weeks that become available due to attrition. Flight Attendants with earned but unscheduled vacation and Flight Attendants wishing to exchange their previously awarded vacation may bid for such available weeks no later than the bid closing date and time. Such vacation will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis. 9. Flight Attendants in the same domicile may trade vacation weeks once awarded.

Vacation Availability. 1. The Company will make adequate weeks of vacation available so that all earned vacation can be awarded. Except as noted in paragraph 2., below, at least one week of vacation will be available for bid and award each week of the year in each domicile. 2. Prior to October 1st of each year, the Company will meet and confer with the MEC/LEC President, or her/his designee, regarding anticipated vacation blackout periods for the following calendar year. After publication of the vacation blackout periods, the number of vacation blackout periods will not be increased. 3. Vacation bids for the following calendar year will open on October 1, and close each week during the month of November. The most senior Flight Attendants will be required to bid first. Twenty-five percent (25%) of the Flight Attendants at a domicile will bid each week. The award of the vacation bids will be published each week during the month of November so as to afford more junior Flight Attendants the opportunity to bid the remaining available vacation periods. 4. A Flight Attendant on a leave of absence will be allowed to bid for vacation. 5. A Flight Attendant with two (2) or more weeks may bid to split her/his vacation into one-week periods or bid to take consecutive weeks. 6. Vacation bids will be awarded on the basis of seniority. 7. Final vacation awards will be posted by December 1. A Flight Attendant who fails to bid a sufficient amount of vacation will be assigned vacation at Company discretion. 8. At least once a month, any vacation weeks that are available during the rest of the year will be posted electronically, provided that the Company may, should staffing require, withhold for a 45-day period vacation weeks that become available due to attrition. Flight Attendants with earned but unscheduled vacation and Flight Attendants wishing to exchange their previously awarded vacation may bid for such available weeks no later than the bid closing date and time. Such vacation will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis. 9. Flight Attendants in the same domicile may trade vacation weeks once awarded.