9.04.23 – APFA DCA Base Brief – October 2023 Staffing and Allocations

October 2023 DCA Staffing and Allocations

Monday, September 4, 2023

On behalf of your APFA Base Leadership and our Contract Action Team, we would like to thank all of you for the massive support shown during our strike authorization vote initiative. 99.47% voted YES to give APFA the green light to call for a strike if mediated negotiations break down at the table and after a 30-day cooling off period. 93% of eligible flight attendants participated! (Remember, we must be released to seek self-help).

Our picketing event was very successful with a turnout of about 78 people. This included many of our DCA Flight Attendants and Flight Attendants from other bases. Also in attendance were your local APFA Base Leadership, Contract ACTION Team Ambassadors, Officers from AFA, including International President Sara Nelson, Union reps from DCA- CWA, AFA United Airlines DCA Base Vice President, AFA PSA DCA council 54 and many local elected government officials turned out to march in solidarity to support our contract talks.

ARE YOU READY? WE ARE READY!

At around 11:45 am (ET), APFA National President Julie Hedrick spoke live on social media to the membership and announced the results of the Strike Authorization Vote (SAV). The crowd roared chanting: READY TO STRIKE- READY TO STRIKE – WE ARE READY! The company no doubt heard us around the system and this show of support for our negotiating team will empower them going forward – Stay tuned for our next steps!

A huge ‘thank you!’ to our Contract Action Team (CAT) Ambassadors, who spent the entire voting period in the terminals, on email, and social media helping and reminding us to vote. We would not have had such a successful turnout without their hard work. Thank you!

DCA CAT Ambassadors (L to R): Dylan Shaw, Gina Fowlkes, Sara Parks, and Alex Roberts.

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When PBS processing begins, if additional Lineholders are needed, those with Reserve status will be changed to Lineholder status in the following order:

1. Tentative Flight Attendants whose preference was Lineholder in the LRD process.
2. Reserve Flight Attendants who toggled to Pref LH in the LRD who were unable to hold Lineholder status in LRD.
3. Most junior Reserve Flight Attendants involuntarily moved to Lineholder status after all the above have been utilized.

Important: If you are in one of these 3 categories above, you will want to bid 7 layers of Reserve and 7 layers of Lineholder in PBS.

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• DCA: 39,240 flying hours (-1190)
• IAD: 2,409 (+482)
• BWI: 2,965 (+10)

44,614 Total flying hours (DCA, IAD, BWI) (-698)

• October will not be a flex month. The contractual targeted credit range default is 70-90, with less projected Reserves and more projected Lineholders. It can be assumed that due to the decrease in block hours month-over-month that the PBS constraints will not go as senior as we saw earlier this year. We had projected September to go more junior and it did. The second constraint was at system seniority 12,239.
• No monthly vacation buyback will be offered for October.
• DCA October Reserve seniority begins at System Seniority 24,128/October 13, 2022.
• DCA is not projected to receive new hires in October. The monthly base transfer- in numbers have satisfied the head count needed. Possible new hires later in the year.

October Holidays or Events:

• Schedule change on October 5
• Columbus Day on October 9
• Halloween on October 31

Allocations notes for October:

• 698 total block hours over September 2023
• 773 total sequences down from 789 in September
• ODAN sequences considerably up from September; BDL, BOS, *JAX *new LGA, PWM, RDU
• LAX high time one day turns are not offered in October – **we will advocate for its return in November**
• LAX 2-day one leg out and one leg back operates 31 days with 20+hour layover.
• LAX 2-day one leg out and one leg back operates 4 days with 15+-hour layover.
•  pay credit range of 10:40
• PHX ‘pink eye’ operating 31 days.
• BWI -8 one day sequences CLT, DFW turns/operating 10 days.
• Charter/Honor flights 16 sequences: 13136, 13156, 13177, 13180, 13187, 13197, 13221, 13229, 13243, 13258, 13262, 13276, 13368, 13382, 13407, 13427
• 3+ hours sit times (79 sequences) down from September.
• 65 pure MAX sequences
• 5 speaker sequences requiring Spanish speakers.
• 26 NIPD trips out of DCA with RON’s CUN, GEO, KIN, MTY, NAS, SJU
• IAD and BWI will not have NIPD RON’s all NIPD turns with RON in CLT
• Sequences that we flagged and sent over to the company for review: 13597 13405 13260 13366 13541 13190 13216 13230 13615 13545 13538 13542 13451 — These sequences have multiple legs and sit times, long duty, short overnights and lengthy TAFB.

Scheduled Duty Days:

• < 8 hours 46.5%
• 8-10 hours 26.5%
• 10-12 hours 23.7%
• >12 hours 3.3%

Scheduled Legs in Duty Day:

• 1-leg 30.4%
• 2-legs 50.5%
• 3-legs 17.5%
• 4-legs 1.6%

Scheduled Layover Rest:

• < 11 hours 0.3%
• 11-12 hours 4.8%
• 12-14 hours 29%
• 16-18 hours 18.2%
• >24 hours 8.9%

Scheduled Sit Times:

• 2-2.5 hours 11%
• 2.5-3 hours 10.2%
• >3 hours 3.1%

October 2023 Bidding Timelines

October 2023

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In closing, this has been a summer of challenges and strife like most summers are, but you all stayed the course. You were professional and dignified in representing yourself and the Flight Attendant Profession. We all appreciate what you do every day to keep this airline flying. Please know we identify with all the challenges you face and by many of you bringing them forward we can work on better solutions going forward.

In Solidarity,

John Pennel
APFA DCA Base President
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Dianne Britton
APFA DCA Base Vice President
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Lisa Barnes
APFA DCA Base Council Representative – Allocations
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