AFA policies, budgets and dues levels are set by AFA's 
dedemocratically - elected flight attendants. All AFA officers 
are flight attendants. Copies of financial reports and the AFA 
Constitution and Bylaws are available to every member upon 
request from their local representives. 

The Local Council

All flight attendants working for the same airline and 
assigned to the same domicile form the Local Council. They 
elect by majority vote the officers to the Local Executive 
Council: The President, Vice President and Secretary. Their 
term of office is three (3) years.

There is no salary paid to local union officers.

Local officers are flight attendant volunteers that give of 
their free time to represent the flight attendants at their 
domiciles. Although these officers are permitted to recover 
some flight pay lost while doing union business, they often 
times lose monies on duty-time and perdiem. On establiched 
carriers, AFA has been successful in getting the company to 
pay a percentage of "flight pay loss" in order that your dues 
dollars do not have to cover the total cost. Our Council 41 
receivesforty (45) hours of company paid flight pay loss 
each month. These 45 hours are used to cover the necessary 
man hours in the administration of Council business. Both 
Pittsburgh and Charlotte receive a total of ninty-five (95) 
hours of company paid flight pay loss, as does the MEC 
President.