days until our Collective Agreement expires, we are preparing, we are united and we will make change.

Message Regarding the 2024 Holiday Season

Many of you are new, and this will be your first of many holidays away from home. It can be challenging, but it’s also an opportunity to make new friends and create memorable adventures. Embrace this time to connect with your crew, enjoy the layover together, and build lasting bonds.

In advance of the holidays coming up, we wanted to ensure that all of our members, both at Mainline and Rouge, are equipped with pertinent contractual language to assist you in navigating the holidays. Please review the most recent Contract Guides (Click here for Mainline & Click here for Rouge) and our Reserve Handbook (Click Here). We believe that through the education of our members about the Collective Agreement, the collective knowledge will benefit us all.

HOLIDAY C1 PASSES
We are pleased to note that the C1 Holiday Passes will be offered to Air Canada Rouge and Air Canada Mainline employees.

Mainline & Rouge Cabin Personnel who work on Christmas Day and/or New Year’s Day will receive a C1/J09 pass for each of these days worked.

This includes Cabin Personnel who are on Reserve on either (or both) of those days, but are not called in. These passes can be carried over from year to year until your retirement. The Passes will be added to your travel profile during the annual refresh – usually around the second or third week of January.

CONTACTING YOUR UNION
Your entire Union team will be available to you during the holiday period.

As a reminder, please contact your Local office (contact info below) for general questions, contract questions and concerns, or potential grievances.

Local 4091 – Montreal
Closed: December 25, 26 & January 1
Natasha Stea, President
info@local4091.ca
609 – 975 boul. Roméo Vachon Nord
Suite 465
Dorval, QC  H4Y 1H1
Phone: 514-422-2235
www.4091.cupe.ca

Local 4092 – Toronto
Closed: December 25, 26 & January 1
Denis Montpetit, President
office@local4092.ca
Toronto Pearson International Airport
Terminal 1 Level 2 Room ED 2005
Mississauga, ON  L5P 1B4
Phone: 905-676-4293
www.local4092.ca

Local 4094 – Vancouver
Closed: December 25, 26 & January 1
Carolyn Bugnon, President
officers@local4094.ca
6001 Grant McConachie Way
Richmond, BC  V7B 1K3
Phone: 604-295-4259
www.local4094.ca

Local 4095 – Calgary
Closed: December 25, 26 & January 1
Tyler McBain, President
office@local4095.ca
Calgary International Airport
2000 Airport Road NE
Departures Level – between outside doors 7 & 8
Calgary, AB  T2E 6W5
Phone: 403-221-2625
www.local4095.ca

Local 4098 – Rouge
Closed: December 23, 24, 25, 26, 31 & January 1
We will be monitoring emails and the office voicemail during this time period, so please continue to reach out

Amy Murray, President
contact@cupe4098.ca
Toronto Pearson International Airport
Terminal 1, Level 2, GA2022
Mississauga, ON  L5P 1B4
Phone:  905-678-6330
www.cupe4098.ca

The 24/7 email address can be utilized for time sensitive and urgent situations: 247@accomponent.ca.

For after-hours emergency situations such as Health & Safety Work Refusals; Emergency Landings; Drug and Alcohol Testing; and Search and Seizure and Arrests please call our Emergency Help Line 1 (866) 764-0192.  In addition, your Component Officers can be reached at contact@accomponent.ca.

In solidarity,

December 2024 Designated Article/LOU Long-Range Flying, Augmented Routes, Onboard Rest Times

(This applies to AC Mainline only)

Please click here to see the Company’s December 2024 block month planned duties chart that outlines routes and their planned long-range extension (i.e. B14, L18, L22A/L22B) including any routes that have been augmented to a higher extension as of December 15, 2024 (**Holiday Augments). (n.b. these charts can be found in Aeronet (In-Flight Service/Crew Scheduling & Planning/Bidding Tools & Information/Duty Summary).

What does “augmenting” mean?
There are times when Air Canada may change the designation of a route to a higher designation. This may be seen during holiday periods in December and January (known as “Holiday Augments”). For example, a route that is normally designated as  B14, may be changed to L18, L18 to L22A, or L22A to L22B. This process is known as “augmenting”.

When a route is augmented, the rules of that higher designation apply i.e. longer onboard crew rest, longer crew rest after returning to home base, longer duty period limitations, and in some cases additional crew members. Once a decision has been made to augment a route, LOU 22 prevents Air Canada from reversing its decision or performing a further augment if Cabin Personnel have already been scheduled to operate the route. Air Canada must publish all routes which have been augmented when PBS bidding opens so that crew members are aware and can bid accordingly.

The routes designated as B14, LOU18, LOU22A, or LOU22B for Dec 2024 are as follows:

B14 YVR-ICN-YVR (789)
LOU 18 YVR-PVG-YVR (789) YYZ-NRT-YYZ (77P) YUL-NRT-YUL (77P)
LOU 22A YVR-AKL-YVR (789) YYZ-DXB-YYZ (789)
  YVR-BNE-YVR (789) YYZ-HND-YYZ (773)
  YVR-HKG-YVR (788/789) YYZ-ICN-YYZ (788/789)
LOU 22B YVR-BKK-YVR (789) YYZ-BOM (789) YUL-DEL-YUL (789)
  YVR-DXB-YVR (789) YYZ-DEL-YYZ (772)
  YVR-SIN-YVR (789)
  YVR-SYD-YVR (789/772)

The routes that have been augmented to a higher long-range extension (“Holiday Augments”) as of December 15, 2024, are:

LOU 22A YYZ-NRT-YYZ (77P) YUL-NRT-YUL (77P)
LOU 22B YVR-AKL-YVR (789) YYZ-DXB-YYZ (789)
  YVR-BNE-YVR (789) YYZ-ICN-YYZ (788/789)

Onboard rest times are as follows:

B14: flight times of 11:30 and greater 2:00 hours
LOU18: duty day up to 14:59
duty day 15:00 and greater
2:30 hours minimum
4:00 hours
LOU22A: duty day up to 17:10
duty day 17:11 and greater
4:00 hours
4:30 hours
LOU22B: duty day up to 18:45
duty day 18:46 and greater
5:00 hours
5:30 hours

Please note:

  • Once bidding is closed, the Company cannot for any reason change the designated Article/LOU.
  • The designation of a pairing (B14, L18, L22A, L22B) shall be based on the duration of the longest leg within that pairing. (L60.04.05 of the collective agreement)
  • All the conditions/rules (such as onboard rest, duty day limitations, crew complement, layover rest period etc.) of the designated Article/LOU apply to the entire pairing.
  • There are two possible onboard rest periods for LOU18, LOU22A, and LOU 22B flights as seen above.  The duty day for each flight will determine the onboard rest period.
  • Meal breaks are to be taken separately from the on-board crew rest.
  • The service specifications may need to be modified for crew to obtain their full contractual rest times.  If service modifications are required, the SD should submit an eOBR.  **Please share the eOBR with your local union office. If there is a manager onboard, report this service modification to them.  If you are told anything different in respect to contractual crew rest by an Air Canada manager, please share this information with your local union.
  • Members are encouraged to verify the designated article or LOU each month.

We have also included the link to the previously published long-range flying chart for quick reference.  (CLICK HERE)

In Solidarity,

Your Component Grievance Committee

Remembrance Day

Today, Canadians across the country gather in solemn reflection to honor and remember the courage, sacrifice, and dedication of our military personnel. On this Remembrance Day, we pay tribute to the men and women who served, and continue to serve, many of whom gave their lives in defense of freedom, peace, and justice.

Each year at 11:00 am on November the 11th, we observe two minutes of silence in memory of those who have fallen in conflict and those who have returned, forever changed. This moment reminds us of the importance of peace and the enduring impact their service has had on our country.

“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.”

Let us come together in respect and gratitude, remembering those who served and the values they protected.

In solidarity,

Secretary-Treasurer Year End Report – 2023-2024

Please see an update below regarding the financial affairs of the Component.

Banking and Investments

Desjardins Credit Union :

  • $3,300,000 @ 4.10% Maturing on August 24, 2025
  • $1,100,000 @ 5.75% Maturing on September 19, 2025
  • $1,400,000 @ 4.80% Maturing on February 26, 2026

We currently maintain a balance exceeding $2.5 million in our day-to-day bank account, which earns an interest rate of 4.50%.

Statement of Operation

2023-2024 Year end (Q4)
Please see below the Unaudited Statement of 2023-2024 fiscal year, covering the period between July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024.

English:

French:

Highest Earner report Q4:
Apr. 2024 – $10,452.67
May 2024 – $12,767.67
Jun. 2024 – $12,012.67

Audits
Our fiscal year has ended on June 30, 2024. We are currently sending our books to our external auditing firm for a full audit. We are up to date for our external audits.

The 2017-2018 trustee audit was completed last June.

Safe flying,

Guillaume Leduc
Secretary-Treasurer, Air Canada Component of CUPE