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AFA Section 1113(c) Response
PROPOSED BY AFA

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United management filed their 1113(c) motion today.

AFA is attempting to address the financial crisis of our company by participating in concessionary bargaining. Our goal is to preserve our company and secure jobs for Flight Attendants.

We are continuing to meet with United in the hopes of reaching a consensual agreement. United's actions today are counter-productive to returning our company to profitability.

The AFA Financial Review Committee
March 17, 2003

Term

Duration -- Six (6) years.

Definitions

Sections 2.G. and 2.Z. – Definition of Domestic flying expanded to include all of Canada.

Section 2.Q. – Reduce paid holidays from 10 to 8.

Compensation

Section 5.A.1. & 2., 5.B.1., 5.P., 12.C.7.i. & l. and 12.D.4. – Effective the first scheduled month following ratification, a reduction of 9% to the book rates for:

• All hourly rates of pay
• Purser pay
• Galley pay
• Language qualified pay
• Language incentive pay

Build backs

• 2007 - 2%
• 2008 - 2%
• 2009 - 2% *

Section 5.A.1. & 2. – Eliminate 2% increase scheduled for March 2004.

Section 5.B.1. – Eliminate purser increase scheduled for August 1, 2003.

Section 5.H. – Understaffing will be paid based on total Flight Attendants onboard versus current E/Y cabin assignments.

Section 6.A. – Reduce per diem from $1.85 to $1.75 per hour effective for the first scheduled month following ratification until the amendable date.

Work Rules, Productivity, Efficiency

Section 7.D. – Expand the 8 in 24 provision to provide an exception for a 2 segment, 1 duty period ID scheduled up to 8:30 in a 24 hour period (i.e. West Coast/ORD; East Coast/DEN).

Duty Period     Scheduled   Actual
0600 – 1759       12 ½        14
1800 – 0559       11 ½        13

Section 7.J.1.b & c. – Change 10-minute requirement to 15 minutes.

Section 8.I. – Increase to six (6) hours.

Section 8.J. – Reassignment to return no more than 18 hours later than originally scheduled.  Flight Attendant has the option to reject the assignment which will cause her/his projection and line guarantee to be reduced unless there are insufficient reserves to cover the schedule.

Section 9.A.3.a. – Maximum line average of 79 hours for Domestic.

Section 9.A.9. – Delete Domestic 80 hour line cap.

Purser        F

Aft Purser    B

Galley        C

Aft Galley    D

All other positions will be awarded in seniority order to lineholders by line # with no designator.

Cabin work assignments for remaining positions will be filled in seniority order in briefing based on aircraft type per Company standards.

Section 9.G. – Effective March 2005 a Flight Attendant may increase hours by using the RDO process to ninety-five (95) hours the first month of the quarter, one hundred ninety (190) for the first two months of the quarter and two hundred seventy (270) hours for the full quarter.

• 70% of the Reserve LOFs will fly both International and Domestic;
• The remaining 30% of the Reserve LOFs will be divided between pure Domestic and pure International flying based on the percentage of Domestic and International flying allocated to that domicile;
• Reserve guarantee will be based on type of line or flying assigned i.e., International would receive International rates of pay and Domestic would receive Domestic rates of pay. Those awarded a combined line would receive pay for their guarantee based on Domestic pay, however, any International IDs flown will be paid at International rates.

Section 12.A.2. – add the following “ . . . except that a Flight Attendant may be scheduled or rescheduled to work both flights in a one duty period round trip between the West Coast and Honolulu and may not exceed fourteen (14) hours on duty.

Section 12. F.2. – Forego ORC until the amendable date.

Block to Block     Place of lodging
   22 hours            20 hours

• Forego “me too”
• Maximum accrual will be 44 days at 25 years of service
• No pay for Tertiary overlaps

Section 19.B.1. – Reduce current occupational leave salary continuance from six (6) months to three (3) months.

Benefits

Defined Benefit Pension – Current plan will generate savings based on the reduced wages and headcount.

Additional Items

• Incorporate Sideletters, Letters of Understanding and Letters of Agreement signed since December 1997 which are still in effect i.e., Critical Coverage Sideletter into Section 9.J and the Military LOA Letter of Agreement into Section 23.F.
• As AFA proposed in Recovery Plan:
  • Grievance Resolution
  • Life Occurrences
  • No Discipline for legitimate use of sick leave
  • No Discipline for wage garnishment
  • Make up AFA by use of RDO
  • Unlimited RDO trades
  • Unlimited trades with open flying
  • Uniform Stripes (on re-issue)
     
• Management will not support Federal legislation regarding changes to the Railway Labor Act.
• Management will support Federal legislation for Flight Attendant certification.
• Contract language regarding cameras in the cabin.
• Fees and expenses for consultants for the negotiating process and reimbursement to AFA for MEC meetings and costs associated with ratification.
• Section 19.A.4. will be modified – A Flight Attendant will not be forced to restore sick leave bank.
• Eliminate override for AFA trip drops.
• Profit sharing, equity and other financial return.
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