RIG Ratio in Guarantee

Question 1

How are leg credits determined?

Answer 1

1 TFP for the first 243 miles flown or 55 minutes of flight time.

Question 2

How many types of RIGS are there?

Answer 2

There are 2 types of RIGS

Daily RIGS

Trip RIGS

Question 3

Duty Hour Ratio (DHR)

Answer 3

For DHR, take the flight attendants duty period for that day and multiply it by .74.

Convert minutes to hundredths.

Always generates a D symbol.

.74x duty period = DHR

Question 4

Duty Period Minimum (DPM)

Answer 4

DPM pays 4 TFP for the day when the leg pay is less than this minimum guarantee.

It will only be on original pairings. (A-R)

Always generates a M symbol.

Always pays 4TFP

Question 5

Trip Hour Ratio (THR)

Answer 5

THR is time away from base divided by 3.

Convert minutes to hundredths

Always generates a (T) symbol.

TAFB/3 (time away from base)

Question 6

Average Daily Guarantee. (ADG)

Answer 6

ADG pays 6.5 x number of duty periods in a pairing.

It will only be on original pairings (A-R)

Always generates an (A) symbol.

ADG = 6.5 x number of days in a trip = TFP.

Question 7

Scheduler Split (S)

Answer 7

Means coverage out of open time.

Gives an (S) in the status box.

Question 8

Open Split

Answer 8

Scheduling splits off a flight attendant’s trip due to SLOS, legality pulls, CC, etc.

Nothing will be in the status box.

Question 9

Flight attendant split. (F)

Answer 9

When a flight attendant splits a trip.

Gives and (F) in the status box.

Question 10

Optimizing (O)

Answer 10

Combing two trips in open time. Full RIG apply.

Gives an (O) in the status box.

Question 11

(P) symbol

Answer 11

Blocks ADH, DPM, THR, And DHR from being recalculated to split duty periods or trips. However it holds exciting prorated RIG.

Will allow DHR and THR to recalculate in the event the flight runs more then 3 hours late.

Always generates a P symbol.

Question 12

In order for DHR and THR to recalculate.

Answer 12

The flight would need to run more then three hours late.

Question 13

(Q) symbol

Answer 13

The Q symbol blocks ADG and DPM.

Holds existing prorated RIGS.

THR and DHR can still kick in.

If THR recalculates it will show a (U) symbol.

If DHR recalculates it will show a E symbol.

Always generates a Q symbol.

Question 14

(U) symbol

Answer 14

If THR recalculates.

Question 15

(E) symbol

Answer 15

If DHR recalculates.

Question 16

Airport Standby Compensation

Answer 16

Airport Standby is paid at .1TFP for every 6 minutes.

Each full hour is worth 1 TFP.

If a flight attendant sits the full 5 hours they will be compensated 5 TFP.

Question 17

Auditing inbounders

Answer 17

This audit will occur on the PM and midnight shifts.

Skip any original trips.
The second letter of the pairing is A-R

Audit all modified trips.
The second letter of the pairing is S-Z

Reason code for auditing is AT. (Payroll adjustment)

Question 18

What reason code would you use to show that you needed to make payroll adjustments.

Answer 18

(AT) is the reason code we would use, when auditing our inbounders to make payroll adjustment.

Question 19

(AT) reason code

Answer 19

It’s what we would use when auditing inbounders to make payroll adjustments.

Question 20

Auditing Steps

Answer 20

I and Q all duty periods, as well as the pairing total.

If the pay goes up on the pairing, save the pairing using (AT) payroll adjustment reason code.

If the pay goes down, refresh and mark the pairing for audit.

Question 21

Southwest pays our flight attendants based off of the time worked, the distance flown or a minimum amount whatever is greatest.

Question 22

On the PM shift everyday, schedulers are responsible for auditing the pay for inbound reserve flight attendants.

Question 23

(D) symbol

Answer 23

DHR always generates a D symbol

Question 24

(M) symbol

Answer 24

DPM always generates a M symbol.

Question 25

(T) symbol

Answer 25

Always generates a T symbol.

Question 26

(A) symbol

Answer 26

ADG always generates an A symbol.

Question 27

What pairings do you audit in your inbounder list?

Answer 27

Modified trips S-Z

Question 28

When does the RIG begin when a flight attendant is on an unscheduled overnight or stranded?

Answer 28

It begins at block in of the unscheduled overnight.