11.03.24 – APFA ORD Base Brief – December 2024 Staffing and Allocations

December 2024 Staffing and Allocations

Sunday, November 3, 2024

Happy November, Chicago!

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Contacting Management for Company Systems and Policy Questions

If you have questions about PBS, TTS, or any other company systems or policies, please direct your inquiries to ORD Inflight via email or phone at (773) 686-4171. Your crew managers are responsible for assisting you.

Management, including your crew managers, should be available to answer Flight Attendant questions about all aspects of our jobs rather than focus on micromanaging and disciplining Flight Attendants with insignificant issues. When management closed the Flight Attendant Bidding and Resource Center, they assured Flight Attendants that help would be available. Please reach out if you need assistance with your bids or any other company policy questions or issues. If you do not receive the help you need, please contact your APFA base leadership.

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Allocations

December has only 2 IPD departures per day, both LHR. There are still no wide body domestic trips. We will continue to ask for more to help offset the loss of IPD flying.

Four-leg day departures have decreased for the second month in a row.

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Important Dates

Contractual month December 2^nd – December 31^st

• Critical period for attendance – December 22^nd – January 3rd *Attendance and Performance Policy 
• Holiday Pay eligible days – CBA 3.K
  • December 24/Christmas Eve
  • December 25/Christmas Day
  • December 26/the day following Christmas Day
  • December 31/New Year’s Eve
  •  January 1/New Year’s Day

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Staffing

The reserve percentage for Chicago is 20.9%. The System average is 21.6%. percentage

Line average for Chicago at PBS open is expected to be 78.3 with a System average of 78.2.

RSV percentage in Chicago is down nearly 4% year over year.

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Sequence Starts per Day

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Trip Construction
1-day: 26% in December vs 21 % in November.
2-day: 30% in December was 30% in November.
3-day: 40% in December was 45% in November.
4-day: 4% in December was 4% in November.
ODAN Starts per day: 21.8 in December was 17.3 in November.

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PBS Preliminary Manning Plan

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From the WINGS Foundation: Recycling Update

Have our recycling procedures changed?

To be clear- recycling procedures have not changed. It is still standard service procedure to recycle aluminum cans and Wings Foundation is not advocating for Flight Attendants to stop recycling. Please continue to recycle for the benefit of the environment and trash management onboard the aircraft.

Safe Travels!

In Solidarity,

Dray Howard
APFA ORD Base President
(630) 215-8410
[email protected]

Justin Patterson
APFA ORD Base Vice President
(509) 720-0067
[email protected]