Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 20
Confusion; Distraction; Situational Awareness
ATC Issue All Types; Airspace Violation All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
ATC Equipment / Nav Facility / Buildings; Procedure
Aircraft X was climbing to FL350; I had to stop the aircraft at FL330 for incoming flights descending to FL340. I used an auto 'A' to handoff Aircraft X to ZAB; and it auto handed off the plane to ZAB65 (owns FL340 and above). I had weather deviations going into PHX and recently had combined up with another sector (ZLA12) with sector 31. Traffic Management Unit (TMU) had re-routed several LAX landing planes into my sky for thunderstorms elsewhere. I switched the plane to ZAB65; and when I went to take the aircraft off my scope I realized it was in ZAB 91's sky. ZLA12 had to be re-opened for volume/complexity in ZLA31 sky.The reasoning for the combination was for training at ZLA09 D-side (which is where ZLA12 is normally combined). While staffing was on the low side; ZLA09 had zero planes when I was asked to combine ZLA12 at ZLA31. Training should not dictate taking safety risks. If the training is that important; then overtime should've been authorized.The auto hand off when a plane is temped at FL330 should go to the controller who owns FL330; not the controller who at some distant time in the future may or may not climb the aircraft into their sky. This would be like the approach auto directing to a high altitude sector in the center? Safety should be to protect the aircrafts current altitude; not to expedite a planes potential to climb at the risk violating airspace.
ZLA Controller hands off an aircraft to another sector. The handoff; because of a Temporary Altitude in the scratch pad area; goes to another sector. The handoff should have went to the sector that the aircraft was 'temped' at; not one that is possibly a future scope.