AP781128 - Flight Attendants (Domestic Airlines) Award 1999
4.1 The Act is the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth).
4.2 Airport reserve is duty time spent by a Flight Attendant at the airport awaiting assignment to a flight or duty.
4.3 Appropriate accommodation is accommodation of a criteria agreed between the Employer and the Association or other employee representative from time to time.
4.4 Assigned or Assignable is where a Flight Attendant is directed or available for direction by the Employer to a duty or vacancy.
4.5 Awarded is the allocation of duty as a result of a request.
4.6 Calendar day is the 24 hour period between midnight and midnight.
4.7 The Commission is the Australian Industrial Relations Commission.
4.8 Deadhead travel is all travel performed at the direction of the Employer not associated with the actual operation of the aircraft, but required for the purpose of positioning for a tour of duty or returning to home base or base of temporary transfer after a tour of duty.
4.9 Designated day off is a rostered calendar day free of duty at permanent base or base of temporary transfer and must include the nominated duty free periods.
4.10 Drafting is compulsory additional hours that a Flight Attendant performs within the monthly ordinary hours as set out in clause 23 - Variation to rostered hours of work, at the requirement of the Employer.
4.11 Duty free day is a day on which no duty may be allocated in accordance with this award.
4.12 Duty includes the following time:
4.12.1 All time spent as an operating Flight Attendant whilst in flight including time spent in flight deadheading on duty, or while accompanying disabled people, aged people or infants.
4.12.2 Time required for duty, including deadhead travel before and after each daily flight sequences, will be not less than 45 minutes prior to departure for sign-on purposes and not less than 15 minutes after engine shut down for sign-off purposes.
4.12.3 Time spent on the ground between sign-on and sign-off
4.12.4 Time spent on airport reserve duty.
4.12.5 Time spent on reserve duty at home as specified in 22.5.
4.12.6 Time spent in deadhead flying and associated ground time for the purpose of operating a later service, or time spent in deadhead flying and associated ground time for the purpose of returning to base after operating a service terminating short of base. Credit under this subclause will cease if the Flight. Attendants released for an overnight stop elects to return by a later service.
4.12.7 Time spent in emergency procedure practices, examinations and courses organised by the Employer.
4.12.8 Time spent on uniform fittings, where the Employer pays the cost of the uniforms.
4.12.9 Time spent when required for duty other than flying not specifically covered by this clause.
4.12.10 Time spent as assignable in accordance with 23.4.
4.12.11 Time spent where Flight Attendants are required to be interviewed by police or legal counsel or give evidence in civil or criminal courts for matters arising out of their employment.
4.13 Duty travel is deadhead travel and travel for the purpose of taking up a new base either permanent or temporary and any other travel for any purpose directed by the Employer.
4.14 Flight Attendant is a reference which includes all classifications in this award, unless otherwise specified.
4.15 Flight hour is the time from engine start up to engine shut down.
4.16 Flying roster is a Flight Attendants roster which consists of flying duty only.
4.17 Flying rosterholder is a Flight Attendant who is awarded or assigned a flying roster during a roster period.
4.18 Incentive pay/single time is the rate of pay determined by dividing the annual salary (weekly salary multiplied by 52) by the monthly maximum hours divided by 12.
4.19 Incentive Pay Day (IPD) is a rostered day on which no duty appears and which is not a designated day off, a duty free day or a substitute day off.
4.20 Misconnections are disruptions caused by:
4.21 Narrow bodied aircraft is an aircraft with a single aisle.
4.22 Non-airport reserve is time spent by a Flight Attendant at their residence or nominated whereabouts at their permanent base awaiting assignment to a flight or duty.
4.23 Open time is flying and any other duty not rostered after the publishing of the original roster, or flying that is rostered when the rostered Flight Attendant is not able to operate.
4.24 Overlap is flying in a roster period which extends into the next roster period.
4.25 Permanent base is the Employer nominated geographical location from which Flight Attendants are rostered for duty.
[4.26 varied by PR900218 from 11Oct99]
4.26 Purser/Cabin Manager/Customer Service Managers(Short-Haul) is a Flight Attendant who is authorised by the Employer to act in charge of the Flight Attendant crew on any aircraft to which that crew has been allocated duty as defined in 4.12. In addition, Pursers/Customer Service Managers (Short-Haul) employed with Qantas Airways Limited will be responsible for the on-line performance appraisal of Flight Attendants. Flight Attendant includes a reference to Purser/Cabin Manager/Customer Service Manager (Short-Haul) unless otherwise specified.
4.27 Reassignable Flight Attendant is a displaced Flight Attendant who is awaiting assignment of a substitute duty within the appropriate classification.
4.28 Reserve rosterholder is a Flight Attendant who holds, is awarded or assigned a reserve roster during a roster period.
4.29 Rest period is the period of time that commences from the sign-off time at the conclusion of a duty, reserve or reassignable period or upon any release from a reserve or reassignable period.
4.30 Roster is an arrangement of duties/incentive pay days and/or designated days off and/or approved leave which are allocated to a Flight Attendant in accordance with 26.3.
4.31 Roster period is a period of calendar months of 30 or 31 days except that:
4.31.1 in any leap year, the months of January and February will be divided into 30 day periods being from 1 January to 30 January inclusive and from 31 January to 29 February inclusive; and
4.31.2 in all other years, the months of January, February and March will be divided into 30 day periods being from 1 January to 30 January inclusive, 31 January to 1 March inclusive and 2 March to 31 March inclusive.
4.32 Sign-off is the time of completion of all duties associated with a tour of duty and will be not less than 15 minutes after the actual engine shut-down where flight duty, including deadhead, is involved.
[4.33 varied by PR900218 from 11Oct99]
4.33 Sign-on is the actual sign-on time for duty by an operating Flight Attendant where flight duty or deadhead is involved which will be not less than 45 minutes prior to departure of the flight unless otherwise agreed between the Employer and the Association or other employee representative. Purser/Cabin Managers/Customer Service Manager (Short-Haul) sign on for wide bodied aircraft at permanent base will be not less than 55 minutes.
4.34 Substitute day off is a replacement designated day off
4.35 Temporary transfer means the transfer of a Flight Attendant from a permanent base to another base for the purpose of being temporarily employed at that base for a period of time to be not less than 7 consecutive days and not more than 31 consecutive days.
4.36 Tour of duty is the elapsed period between sign-on and sign-off at the Flight Attendant’s permanent or temporary transfer base.
4.37 Wide bodied aircraft is an aircraft with more than one aisle,
4.38 Warlike or terrorist operations includes acts of war, whether declared or undeclared; warlike acts in the course of civil war or armed civil insurrection; deliberate attacks on aircraft by units or armed forces (including shooting or forcing down in time of peace); or where a Flight Attendant is killed in the course of duty with the Company as a result of proven acts of sabotage or acts of hijacking.
