11.07.24 – APFA DCA Base Brief – December 2024 Staffing and Allocations

December 2024 DCA Staffing and Allocations

Thursday, November 7, 2024

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: 38,655 (+384)
• IAD: 2,243 (+403)
• BWI: 3,460 (+172)

44,358 total flying hours (DCA, IAD, BWI) (+959 month-over-month) (+1729 year-over-year)

• December will not be a flex month
• The contractual targeted credit range default is 70 to 90 with an opening line average of 76.9 for the month of December
• No VLOAs are being offered for the December bid month
• DCA Reserve seniority for December begins at system seniority 23,988 OCC date 09 February 2023
• Reserve percentage is -3.6% compared to December 2023 + 56-line holders year over year
  Block hours year over year is +8.3%

December Events and Timelines

• Flight Schedule Change(s): December 5 and December 19
• Christmas Eve: December 24
• Christmas Day: December 25
• New Year’s Eve: December 31

Attendance/Incentive Points and Holiday Pay

Note: The Critical Period for Attendance/Incentive Points is separate from Holiday Pay.

• For Attendance/Incentive Points, the Thanksgiving Critical Period is November 27 though December 1 this year. The Christmas/New Year’s Critical Period is December 22 through January 3. Any absences during this period will accrue an additional point under the Company’s Attendance and Performance Program. Likewise, operating all sequences, RAPs, or Standby Shifts during this period will earn an incentive credit (banked point) that can be used later to reduce a point-generating absence.
• For Holiday Pay, any flying performed on November 27, November 28, December 1, December 2, December 24-26, December 31 and/or January 1 is paid + 100% over your base hourly rate and is based on the greater of scheduled or actual hours flown on the designated holiday. The holiday premium will be paid above guarantee for Reserves and will be pay, no credit for Lineholders.

Allocations Notes for December

• 766 total sequences
• ODAN flying operating 25 days (BOS and BDL)
• LAX high time turns operating 17 days
• LAS high time turns operating 14 days
• LAX 2-day operating 14 days
• PHX “pink eye” operating 30 days DCA-DFW morning turns 30 days
• DFW evening turns 17 days
• NAS morning turns 30 days
• PBI morning turns 20 days
• MIA morning turns 13 days
• FLL evening turns 19 days
• PBI evening turns 20 days
• MCO evening turns 17 days
• 1-day DFW turns out of BWI 29 days
• 1-day NIPD turns out of BWI 16 days
• 33 sequences high time 2 days out of IAD
• No Charters
• 260 sit times of 2.5 hrs. or more
• 5 speaker sequences
• NIPD layovers: AUA, BDA, BGI, CTG, CUN, CUR, GEO, KIN, NAS, POS, PUJ, SAP
• Canada Overnights YVR, YYZ
• 174 Boeing MAX sequences

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Scheduled Duty Days:

• <8 hours: 49.3%
• 8-10 hours: 25.9%
• 0-12 hours: 22.1%
• >12 hours: 2.7%

Scheduled Legs in Duty Day:

• 1-leg: 36.2%
• 2-legs: 49.1%
• 3-legs: 13.9%
• 4-legs: 0.8%

Scheduled Layover Rest:

• < 11 hours: 0.2%
• 11-12 hours: 7.6%
• 12-14 hours: 26.0%
• 16-18 hours: 15.7%
• >24 hours: 12.9%

Scheduled Sit Times:

• 2-2.5 hours: 10.9%
• 2.5-3 hours: 9.6%
• >3 hours: 3.5%

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December 2024 Bidding Timelines

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December 2024 System Reserve Seniority

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Congratulations Classes 24-05 Through 24-10
You are officially off probation!

Classes 24-05 and 24-06

Classes 24-07 and 24-08

Classes 24-09 and 24-10

Classes 24-09 through 24-15 are scheduled to complete their probation periods in November and December. By the end of this period, all classes will have graduated from probation, and we look forward to bringing in additional new hires in 2025!

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Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) Talk

As you know, APFA and the Company have agreed on an Implementation Timeline for the upcoming changes to the CBA. If you have any questions or need to understand the timing of these changes, please refer to the timeline.

Retro pay, a key item during negotiations, will be paid out on November 8, 2024. Securing this retro pay was essential for APFA’s agreement on the CBA, ensuring that our members received this commitment from the Company. Now that this is finally being dispersed, we hope these additional funds will benefit you and your families. Thank you to the Negotiating Committee and all of you for supporting the “No Retro Pay, No Way!” campaign.

Visit APFA.org  for the most recent and historic hotlines about upcoming implementation items. If you have any questions about the CBA you can contact the Contract Implementation Committee (CIC) [email protected].

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We Heard You!

We have heard your feedback, as many of you have reached out with grievances or desire for change, especially around bidding and scheduling. Many of you were interested in an improved bid sheet, and your suggestions were brought to the Company. We managed to secure some of the flying you requested, but we continue to work on additional requests. Overall, we fulfilled many of your preferences.

Additionally, we understood your concerns about the IAD parking hang tag issue last month. I shared our position on this in last month’s base brief, and we are still actively working on a resolution.

We have also heard your concerns about selecting other seats when deadheading on your sequences, selecting these improved seats outside the four-hour window like the Pilots, and being moved up to first class when seats are available while deadheading, similar to the Pilots.

A grievance was already filed on the latter, and we are looking into a possible grievance on the seat selection since our contract allows us to receive any travel benefit that any other workgroup receives.

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2025 Annual Enrollment closes Monday, November 11 at 11:59 pm (CT)

• 2025 Annual Enrollment Cheat Sheet
  Medical Options/Paycheck Contributions/Prescription, Dental and Vision Coverage
• 2025 Annual Enrollment Checklist
  Determine Your Needs/Explore the Different Plans/Enroll by November 11

Go to myenrollment.aa.com and click on “Enroll” to get started.

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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!

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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 DCA Inflight via email or phone at 571-473-4100. 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 (FABRC), 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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We wish you and your family a peaceful, joyful,
and bountiful holiday as Thanksgiving approaches!

In Solidarity,

John Pennel
APFA DCA Base President
[email protected]

Dianne Britton
APFA DCA Base Vice President
[email protected]

Lisa Barnes
APFA DCA Base Council Representative – Allocations
[email protected]