Common misconceptions: 1. Signing up for a specific date, time or flight. --Not true. When you sign up for Space-A...you are in our system for any flights going to the destination you chose during sign-up. You are eligible to compete for seats on any of those flights. To compete, you have to come to terminal and mark yourself present for the flight you wish to compete for and then make the roll-call for that flight. ---You can mark yourself present up to 24 hours prior to the flight. ---roll call this time of year is 0530 the day of the flight 2. Space-A authorization letter gives me a round-trip ticket to fly. --Not true. The letter authorizes you to sign up(limited to date of letter and/or of dates noted within the letter). It is NOT a gaurantee of obtaining a seat on any mission, but an opportunity to compete for open seats. 3. Space-A authorization letters are good until I complete my travel back to my originating station. --Not true. The letter must have a date at the top. This officializes the letter(along with a commanders signature) and gives a starting point at which you can sign up. If there are travel dates within the letter(Cat V), you cannot sign up until 10 days prior to the first day of the travel days noted. --EML paperwork is good for 90 days or until the date noted on the form. --Space-A authorization letters(other than EML) are good for 90 days as of the letterhead date or for the date noted within the letter itself. ----Space-A sign-up is only good for 60 days. After that, you get dumped from the system and have to sign-up again. 4. We have your email containing your sign-up documents. --Not true. Most emails contain the authorization letters or leave paperwork that is used to sign up. We do not keep email that has been sent to us. Also, our email is an organizational email box and is checked by several individuals on different shifts. We cannot keep everyones email because it clogs up our system. --These documents are also required to always be in the possession of the traveler(s). All of those documents are required to be inspected and verified when you come to mark yourself present. v/r Tim Sanders
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 05:26:03 +0000