Exhibits Vol 2 - Independent Pilots Association

flight back to Memphis.
PSIT Notes:
Greetings from the B777 PSIT. July is a four-week month with the Independence Day occurring on the first day of
the bid month. For the 777, July 4 th is another work day, because of our international focus. There is little impact on
our schedule. As we have seen the last few months, the average BLG is working its way down. The company
requested a BLG target of 81 hours for July. We were able to build to 81:46 for the Captains, and 82:01 for the First
Officers.
Issues:
Flying hours: May was the last four-week month, and compared to May, front seat flying for July was 45 hours
lower. Relief flying hours, however, showed a shift of 800 hours from First Officers to Captains. In percentage
terms, we had a decrease of nearly 1% of front seat flying time, but a 26% increase in Captain RF2 time. For May,
34% of the buildable hours was RF2 time, but in July this number increased to nearly 40% of the buildable hours.
This in turn required us to build less pure flying lines. We expect to see this trend reverse in the future as twice as
many FO’s as Capt are being trained/qualified per month.
On a trial basis, we decided to sort the lines by putting the non-RFO/RF2 lines at the front of the bidpack. We also
put the lines containing nothing but RFO/RF2 time at the end of the bidpack. We would like your feedback as to
whether you like this line sorting. If you have any other ideas as to how you would like the lines sorted, let us know.
CZ airlines. We have one pairing containing a deadhead on China Southern. We had requested a change to Dragon
Air on this pairing, but this would have forced the company to operate the deadhead without a backup, so it was left
as is. We continue to solicit your CZ deadhead experiences. If you can add a photo(s) to your write ups, this would
be even more helpful.
Pairing Changes:
Pairing 56 has a mid-trip deadhead between CAN and SZX. It will be changed from the current deadhead to a
ground transportation directly between the two cities. This pairing operates four times throughout the month, with a
Friday departure on each occurrence.
As always, we welcome feedback on pairing construction and line building. We can’t emphasize enough that your
issues really do get traction, but we can’t do anything unless we know about your concerns. Scheduling PIREPs on
the ALPA website are invaluable tools in letting us know what needs to be addressed. Remember though that we
aren’t copied on PORs. Therefore, please submit a Scheduling Committee PIREP anytime you submit a Company
Pilot Ops Report and then please CC the report to us here at the PSIT via email. This is the only way we can track
data on current issues with any reliability. As always, we welcome your input and feedback on any trip that you
operate.
In Unity,
Gregg Hall
Barry Rutberg
Aaron Grady
Fedex777MEM@alpa.org
TRIP SERVICES SOLUTIONS
LAX & HKG MEM Recurrent Training Hotel & Ground Transportation Update – The new Flight Training
hotel, The Doubletree, and its associated transportation started with the May Bid Period. The committee was not
consulted by the Company prior to this business decision being made. Once the committee was made aware of the
decision to use The Doubletree and informed of the renovations made to the hotel the committee agreed to use the