7.26.24 – 2024 Tentative Agreement Information/ Base Visits/ TA Call Center/Voting Information

Friday, July 26, 2024

Negotiations Update #69
2024 Tentative Agreement (TA) Information

We are pleased to provide information about the 2024 Tentative Agreement. Together, 28,000 Flight Attendants stood united and battled a company insistent on offering outdated industry-standard compensation. Through many pickets and a decisive strike authorization vote, you kept this fight at the forefront of the media and in the minds of the traveling public, compelling American management to offer a top-of-industry agreement.

Flight Attendants across the industry have demanded fair compensation for all their time at work. With the addition of a boarding pay premium and a new sit rig, we have diversified our compensation, ensuring that we are paid for our time.

This agreement is not just a win for us today but a foundation for a fairer future for all Flight Attendants.

A Tentative Agreement Executive Summary will be available digitally and mailed to your address on file with APFA. Click here to ensure you’ve updated your address with APFA.

This 2024 Tentative Agreement adds 4.2 billion dollars in value to our contract over five years.

Economic Components Include:

• Retroactive pay from 2020-2024 vs. meager signing bonus.
• $4.2 billion total increases in pay rates, 401(k), per diem, profit sharing, boarding pay premium, retroactive pay, and other items.
• Industry-leading compensation (average pay plus boarding pay).
  • Wage increases of 18%-20.5% on date of signing.
  • Pay scale increases of 33%-36% over the duration of the agreement.
  • Annual wage increases of 2.75%, 3.0%, 3.0%, and 3.5%.
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• Boarding pay premium added and paid at 50% of your rate of pay for every minute of a scheduled boarding.
  
• Per Diem increases by 27% at DOS to $2.85 Dom / $ 3.40 Int’l (same as pilots), with increases of .05 cents per year for both DOM and INTL, adding an average of 35% over five years.
• 401(k) increased to 9% from 5.5%. Company contribution of 5%, match at 4%.
• 737/A320/A319 premium lead pay increase.
• International IPD galley premium doubled.
• Crew Accommodations Penalty Pay: Adds 150% pay (for the duty period or entire sequence, depending on the length of hotel assignment delay) for hotel delays following schedule modification (rescheduling, cancellation, or other schedule change).
• All vacation days paid at four (4) hours regardless of length.
• CQ pay doubled from $225 to $450.
• Profit sharing percentage increased from 5% to 10%/20% model (same formula as pilots, mechanics and agents).
• Introduction of a new Sit Time Rig which pays one minute for every two minutes of actual ground time greater than 2 hours and 30 minutes (2:30).
• Ability to convert sick bank at 50% of your hourly wage into a Retirement Health Reimbursement Account (RHRA) upon retirement. Retained cash out option in current JCBA.

Scheduling Components Include:

• Added bidding options in PBS, including:
  • Prefer Positions Order: adds the ability to bid multiple aircraft in each layer, and bid specific positions for each aircraft within that same layer (provides more efficient layer usage).
  • Sequence Sorting by Language: Speakers will now be able to filter sequences for each specific language- it will no longer be necessary to scour the bid packet to find language sequences.
  • Allow Double Ups: adds the generic ability to bid for double ups without requiring specific dates.
  • Reserves gain the ability to bid a consecutive block of days off in a month- placed anywhere.
• Exception to the Daily Limits in TTS: Adds the ability to award more trades to improve coverage on a worse day.
• Reserves gain ability to use TTS/UBL: on days off and once released.
• UBL Trip Improvement: Adds the ability to trade in UBL for a different trip that originates on the same day and is equal to or greater in length than the trip being dropped until 1500 HBT the day before. Today, Flight Attendants can only position swap on same sequence in UBL.
• Out-of-base UBL pickup: Out-of-base Flight Attendants will have access to other bases’ open time after all in-base Lineholders and Reserves on days off.  
• Less than Minimum Callout (LMCO): Adds the ability for Lineholders and Reserves on days off to pick up a UBL sequence within two (2) hours of scheduled departure (3 hours in a co-terminal), prior to assigning Standbys. (short/quick call)
• A Lineholder or Reserve on days off may now pick up an ETB sequence outside the footprint of their originally scheduled pay protected sequence. Today, pay protected Flight Attendants forfeit pay protection if an ETB transaction touches the calendar day of the originally scheduled pay protected sequence.
• Add the ability for Reserves to pick up Red Flag sequences on days off(may use both TTS and UBL).
• Adds the option for all Flight Attendants to bid specific sequences as “red flag only” in TTS. Today, you can only bid generically for Red Flag sequences.
• New pay protections for Flight Attendants who lose three (3) or more sequences due to scheduling changes that are not otherwise pay protected under current Section 10. This reduces the dependency on Letters of Agreement negotiated with management.
• Last sequence/last series pay protection for Reserves:  Any Reserve who picks up a TTS/UBL or ETB sequence(s) will now be pay protected for last sequence/last series (like lineholders) if the Reserve has either timed out (RSVCOT) or has no more Reserve day(s) obligation in the month.
• Improved Crew Scheduling Error pay: Applies once a Flight Attendant has reported for a sequence. Today, crew scheduling error pay only applies after sequence origination.
• Added language to address the misuse of scheduling systems (cartel activity).
• Deadhead Stand Up: After report and prior to release of the last working leg in sequence, a deadheading Flight Attendant may be rescheduled to work the same flight instead of deadheading. The intent is to lower reserve utilization systemwide by using crewmembers already in place who are legal and available to work the flight.

How do our wages compare to Delta, Southwest, and United?

Tentative Agreement Call Center

Beginning Saturday, July 27th (tomorrow), the 2024 Tentative Agreement call center will be open daily from 9 am until 5 pm and may be reached at:

(424) 4TA INFO
(424) 482-4636
Base Visits

All base visits will be held from 1100-1400 HBT. Locations will be announced in an individual base brief.

Click here to RSVP for your local base visit.

Tentative Agreement Voting Information

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Continue to wear your red WAR pin, red lanyard, and bag tags until we secure the contract we’ve earned.

In Solidarity,

Your APFA Negotiating Committee

Reese Cole
Kelly J. Hagan
Julie Hedrick
Timothy Legeros
Brian Morgan
Wendy Oswald
Susan Wroble
Joe Burns, Lead Negotiating Attorney

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