7.21.12 – (LAA) – LBFO

This is Leslie Mayo, National Communications Coordinator, with the APFA Hotline for Saturday, July 21, 2012.
 
Last Best and Final Offer

Yesterday, the APFA Executive Committee voted to send AA’s Last Best and Final Offer to the membership for a vote. Ballots went out yesterday, July 20th. Online voting opened at 10:00 am Central Time this morning, July 21, 2012. Ballots are due by August 19, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. Central Time. If you have your VIN and PIN from a prior vote you may vote by phone at 800.698.3789 or the Internet at https://ballotpoint.com/apfa. If you do not have your VIN and PIN, you will need to wait for your ballot packet to arrive in the mail. Please do not call the National Ballot Committee for assistance until after you receive your packet. In order to have your vote counted, you must be dues current by 5:00 pm Central Time on August 15, 2012.

The first round of Q&As have been posted on APFA’s web site. Below is a list of the roadshow dates and meeting places.

Roadshow Schedule: (Hotels will be posted as soon as information is available)

July 25
2:30pm to 4:30pm
Raleigh/Durham
Hilton Garden Inn
4620 South Miami Blvd
Durham, NC  27703
919.941.6066
Parking: Complimentary

July 26
10:30am to 2:30pm
Dallas/Ft. Worth
Hyatt Regency
DFW Airport, TX
972.453.1234
Parking: Complimentary provided you have your ticket stamped by concierge

July 27
11am to 2pm
Miami
Sheraton Miami Airport
3900 NW 21st Street
Miami, FL  33142
Parking: Complimentary

July 31
11am to 2pm
San Francisco
Embassy Suites South, San Francisco Airport
250 Gateway Blvd.
S. San Francisco, CA  94080
APFA will pay for parking

August 1
11am to 2pm
Los Angeles
Hilton LAX Airport
5711 West Century Boulevard
Los Angeles, California, 90045
310.410.4000
APFA will pay for parking

August 2
11am to 2pm
St. Louis
Hilton St. Louis Airport
10330 Natural Bridge Road
St. Louis, MO  63134
800.314.2117
APFA will pay for parking

August 7
11am to 2pm
Boston
Hotel Pending – Finalized and announced next week

August 8
11am to 2pm
Chicago
Hilton Garden Inn at O’Hare Airport
2930 South River Road
Des Plaines, IL 60018
847.296.8900
Parking is complimentary

August 10
11am to 2pm
New York
JFK Hilton
144-02 135th Ave.
Jamaica, NY  11436
718.659.0200
APFA will pay for parking

August 15
11am to 2pm
Washington, D.C.
Hotel Pending

Flight Attendants can expect to receive a copy of AA’s July 19, 2012, Last Best and Final Offer along with a side by side comparison of the LBFO and AA’s March 22nd Term Sheet in the mail. If your address is not current, please email [email protected] as soon as possible and include your up-to-date address, phone number, and also if you would like to start receiving the APFA hotline via email.

That’s it for now. We will provide updates as they come available.
 

AmericanAirlines + US Airways
“Our Future Depends On It”

Leslie Mayo
APFA National Communications Coordinator

 

Office of the President 7.20.12  

Dear APFA Member,

Today, the APFA Executive Committee passed a resolution to send the company’s Last Best and Final Offer (LBFO) to the membership for a vote. Although not a tentative agreement, this LBFO represents the absolute best terms our negotiating team was able to achieve during Section 1113 negotiations. The terms of the LBFO, which will be published on the website and mailed to you shortly, contains substantial improvements over AA’s Section 1113 term sheet.

In an effort to circulate as much information as possible regarding this LBFO, the negotiating team and I, along with our professionals, will be visiting each base beginning July 25th. We will also be posting an analysis of the offer, a side-by-side comparison of AA’s LBFO and the March 22nd Section 1113 term sheet, and other information as well.

I would like to commend the tremendous efforts of the APFA Negotiating Team. As you know, they have been working for more than four years to achieve an agreement and were very close to providing improvements when their efforts were halted last November by AA’s bankruptcy filing. This team was then given the unenviable task of negotiating on the Section 1113 timetable with those awful terms hanging over them. Though it is far from the agreement they wanted, given the circumstances, their efforts were extraordinary and I am proud to be associated with them.

As always, please visit the APFA web site for the most current information, including dates and times for the upcoming road shows.

Thank you for all that you do and for your continued professionalism.

In Unity,

Laura Glading
APFA President
817.540.0108 x8101
[email protected]