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(b) Beginning on the date of ratification of this Settlement and continuing up to and including
the six (6) month anniversary of that date, the Company will offer a language bonus of five
hundred dollars ($500) to any Flight Attendant who (I) expresses written interest in
response to that offer during that period, (ii) has not previously identified himself/herself to
the Company as a language speaker, (iii) passes the Company’s proficiency test, and (iv)
agrees to the applicable language lock-in under the Basic and Supplemental International
Agreements. In no case shall any Flight Attendant be entitled to more than one (1)
language bonus. Any Flight Attendant who is awarded this language bonus will not be
eligible, in addition, for reimbursement for language training under Paragraph 17(a) of this
Settlement for the same language entitling the Flight Attendant to such language bonus.
18. (a) On January 1, 1991, January 1, 1992, and October 1, 1992, the Company agrees to permit
the number who proffer, but no more than 5% of the language speakers in each language at
each base with ten (10) or more years of occupational seniority, to resign their qualification,
with the exception of those Flight Attendants serving a language lock-in or reserve obligation.
In the event that the 5% calculation does not produce a whole number [i.e., a number less than
one (1) or a number consisting of a whole number plus a fraction], that number shall be raised
to the next whole number. Consistent with this, the minimum number of Flight Attendants with
ten (10) or more years of occupational seniority permitted to resign in each language at each
base pursuant to this sub-paragraph shall be one (1). If more than 5% of language speakers in
each language at each base with ten (10) or more years of occupational seniority give notice of
their intent to resign, resignations shall be awarded in order of occupational seniority up to the
5% limitation. Such Flight Attendants must give notice of their intent no later than October 1,
1990, October 1, 1991, and July 1, 1992, respectively. The parties will meet and confer
concerning the results of these three occurrences and the methods for describing a specific
methodology for future years. Should there be no agreement by the parties as a result of those
meetings by October 30, 1992, the provisions of (b), below, shall apply.
(b) Should there be no agreement by October 30, 1992, as stated in (a), above, the Company
thereafter agrees to offer, at least annually, a procedure that will permit language speakers
at each base in each language an opportunity to give six (6) months notice to the Company
of their desire to resign their language qualification. To the extent that the language
staffing requirements of the specific base, as determined by the Company, permit language
resignations, such language resignations will be awarded in order of occupational seniority
at the base. In no case will a language resignation be awarded to a Flight Attendant
serving a language lock-in or reserve obligation at the time of the award.
(c) Speakers who resign a language obligation under either (a) or (b), above, will be permitted
to requalify subject to the applicable language lock-ins contained in the Basic and
Supplemental International Agreements. Flight attendants resigning their language
qualification under (a) or (b), above, who have insufficient seniority to remain in the
International Operation will be considered to have resigned from International.
19. Domestic or International flights assigned to APFA Flight Attendants requiring a foreign
language will be staffed according to the numbers set forth in the Basic and Supplemental
international Agreements, except that the Company may specify the mix of languages required
on a route based on marketing considerations. Consistent with the foregoing, MD-11 aircraft
(Domestic and International) will be staffed with language speakers in the same numbers as
the B-747.
20. The Company has the right to build monthly trip selections with an unlimited number of
positions or combination of positions, and to draw any number of combination of foreign
language speaking Flight Attendants from any such monthly trip selection up to the maximum
complement described in the Basic and Supplemental International Agreements. In
circumstances where the first class cabin of a widebody International trip is staffed with a bid
Purser position and a bid first class cabin position, the Company will not build a trip selection
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