Posts Tagged ‘MIA Base Brief’

Saturday, April 24, 2021 All, We have been unable to reach an LOA for sequence cancellation protections for those flights directly related to the active volcano in SVD. The Company…

Tuesday, April 13, 2021 May Reserve Numbers Pay Protections for Flights to Canada Volcano Erupts on St. Vincent   All, May Reserve Numbers It has been brought to my attention…

Friday, April 9, 2021 **Correction** APFA MIA Base Brief – May 2021 Allocations MIA Flight Attendants, We have a correction to Yesterday’s May 2021 Allocations Brief: TLV is planned to…

Thursday, April 8, 2021 May 2021 Staffing and Allocations All, For the month of May, Miami’s block hours are 119,400. This is down 19,489 from April. This was mainly attributed to…

Friday, March 26, 2021 GYE and UIO Cancelations All, I am pleased to report that all GYE and UIO cancelations will be marked as COVID cancelations, and will be pay…

Tuesday, March 16, 2021 COVID-19 Vaccines Available Today, March 16 in Miami All, The government is providing airline employees a limited number of COVID-19 vaccinations. Vaccines will be offered on a…

Tuesday, March 9, 2021 April 2021 Staffing and Allocations All, We continue to see an increase in block hours which is a trend we expect to see in the coming…

Monday, February 22, 2021 Boeing 777 Concerns/March Pay Protections/Vacation Bidding All, American currently has 47 Boeing 777-200 and 20 Boeing 777-300 aircraft in its fleet, neither of which use the…

Tuesday, February 9, 2021 March 2021 Staffing and Allocations All, Miami’s total block hours for March are 127,919. This is an 8.7% increase from February. We are still down 43%…

Friday, January 22, 2021 February Pay Protection All, I am pleased to report that APFA has secured a pay protection Letter of Agreement for February. Cancellations which are COVID-related, will…

Wednesday, January 6, 2021 February 2021 Allocations All, As we begin the new year, I hope you had time to enjoy the holiday season. I would like to welcome back…

Sunday, January 3, 2021 February 2021 Preliminary Staffing Numbers All, For February, the Miami operation is down 51.7% YOY and will see an additional 3% drop from January’s schedule. We…

Wednesday, December 30, 2020 GIG and GRU Crewmembers Health Declaration Survey All, Effective immediately, all crews flying to GIG and GRU will be required by the Brazilian Government to fill out a…

Tuesday, December 22, 2020 GIG Position 9 Update All, Starting on January 4th, GIG will operate as a 777-200. The 787 was originally planned to operate the trip for January,…

Friday, December 18, 2020 Trading into Red Flagged Sequences via TTS Crew Scheduling has designated certain Red Flag sequences prospectively. I have received numerous calls regarding the rules for trading…

Tuesday, December 8, 2020 LRD Tool and PBS Bidding When toggling to Lineholder in the LRD tool, it is IMPERATIVE that you create both a Reserve and Lineholder monthly bid…

Thursday, December 3, 2020 January 2021 Staffing and Allocations January flying is still down about 55% year over year. System-wide block hours are 672,889 slightly up from 666,157 in December, but…

Thursday, November 12, 2020 Trips Missed Due to Tropical Storm Eta Through a Letter of Agreement, the Company has agreed to remove all trips missed associated with Tropical Storm Eta.…

Friday, November 6, 2020 December Staffing and Allocations Once again, the Company has relaxed the penalties on the optimizer creating longer duty days, increased sit times, and multiple legs contained…

Tuesday, November 3, 2020 Deep South Flying for December Pay Protections Latin America-Based Flight Attendant Reductions All,I would like to provide you a preliminary update on Deep South flying for December.…

Sunday, October 18, 2020 Bermuda Update and Sequence Modifications All, All BDA sequences will be modified to operate as turns. They will be treated as a reschedule unless they completely…

Saturday, September 26, 2020 October Pay Guarantee GRU TTS Programming Error Latin America Reductions   October Pay Guarantee I am pleased to announce that APFA was able to extend the…

Wednesday, September 9, 2020 October Staffing and Allocations Last week, the Base Presidents were invited to participate in a “quality of life” discussion with the Company regarding sequence construction for…

Tuesday, September 1, 2020 October Plan All, Allocations is still working on the October schedule. Absent an extension to the Payroll Support Program (PSP), the Company plans to operate the…

Monday, August 10, 2020 September Staffing and Allocations September is normally a month where there is a reduction in flying system-wide which is attributed to a seasonal pullback. The reduction…

Tuesday, July 28, 2020 MIA Date: Today, July 28 Time: 12:00 – 13:00 ET Click this link to join the event APFA is hosting a Virtual Town Hall for MIA today, from 1200-1300…

Monday, July 27, 2020 MIA Date: Tomorrow, July 28 Time: 12:00 – 13:00 ET Click this link to join the event APFA is hosting a Virtual Town Hall for MIA tomorrow, from 1200-1300…

Friday, July 24, 2020 MIA Date: Tuesday, July 28 Time: 12:00 – 13:00 ET Click this link to join the event APFA is hosting a Virtual Town Hall for MIA Tuesday from 1200-1300…

Friday, July 10, 2020 MIA Flight Attendants, August 2020 Allocations The planned block hours for August is 114,523. Last August our allocated block hours were 227,255. GRU is scheduled to…

Wednesday, July 1, 2020 MIA Flight Attendants, APFA Leadership was given an in-depth briefing prior to Jill’s announcement this afternoon. Doug Parker, CEO, Brian Znotins, VP of Network and Schedule…