10.02.22 – Hurricane Ian- Letter of Agreement

Sunday, October 2, 2022

Hurricane Ian- Letter of Agreement

Many Flight Attendants have been impacted by the recent hurricane that tore through the southern United States. APFA has reached a Letter of Agreement (LOA) with the company to provide some special arrangements for Flight Attendants based in MIA and CLT, as well as those that commute from those areas.

There are two parts to this letter of agreement. You may use one or both options outlined in this agreement.

1. Use of vacation days to cover lost hours.
2. Recoding of missed trips (TM), Personal Days (PO) and “unable to commute” absences, rendering them non-chargeable attendance/dependability events.

You may opt to use vacation days to cover lost hours due to Hurricane Ian if you:

• experienced a full sequence (XI) cancellation that was not otherwise pay protected per JCBA provisions.
• missed a trip and are covered under the commuter policy.

-or-

• requested a PO.

You may use unscheduled vacation days, unused filler days or scheduled vacation days from the 2022-2023 cycle to receive pay for trips originating September 27-30, 2022. You may use any amount of vacation days for these trip(s) and extend up to seven days past the final day of the last trip originating during this period, as long as there is no paid activity within the seven-day period.

As a reminder, blocks of less than seven vacation days are paid at 3.30 hours per day. Blocks of seven or more vacation days are paid at 4.00 hours per day. If you use vacation days from an existing block and less than seven days remain, that vacation block will be paid at 3.30 hours per day.

Reach out to [email protected] by 1200 CT on October 7th, 2022, to exercise this option.

Personal Days, Missed Trips, Unable to Commute

• If you took a PO, received a TM or were unable to commute and were covered by the commuter policy between September 27-30, 2022, the absence will be nonchargeable under the attendance policy.
• Email your AFSM telling them the absence was due to Hurricane Ian and they will recode it to (XX).

If you have extenuating circumstances or suffered a severe hardship as result of Hurricane Ian, reach out to your FSM for individual assistance.

Your APFA local and national leadership stand ready to support you in exercising the provisions outlined in this letter of agreement as well as recovering from the impact of this hurricane. Do not hesitate to reach out to any of us.