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PIT DISPLACEMENTS POSTPONED

The Company issued the following CBS message today:

The company and the AFA is continuing to evaluate the different options and suggestions from the 2 meetings that have taken place in Pittsburgh over the past two weeks regarding the displacement of 40 Flight Attendants out of PIT. While we continue to maintain that it is still necessary to reduce PIT Flight Attendant staffing by 40, Sherri Shamblin, Vice President of In-Flight and Mike Flores, AFA MEC President have agreed to postpone the June displacement for one month in order to thoroughly evaluate options on how the displacements will occur.

If you are one of the 40 who were notified of being displaced, it will be necessary for you to bid your June schedule as a PIT based Flight Attendant. Although we cannot guarantee that there will be a change in how the displacements are handled, we anticipate a decision by the first week of May.

Michael Finn
Managing Director, Crew Resources
US Airways

After yesterday's meeting in PIT, the Company has agreed to postpone the June PIT displacements for one month while the AFA and the Company look for possible alternatives to the way displacements in PIT will be processed. The PIT Flight Attendants attending both meetings made the Company acutely aware of the way the decision to not displace out of CLT adversely affected them. As a result of that decision the playing field for the PIT Flight Attendants changed drastically as the timing of the announcement not to displace out of CLT occurred almost simultaneously with the displacement bid closing.

The Flight Attendants at the meetings described very eloquently how the tone of US Airways President, Scott Kirby's, letter explaining the decision to displace out of PIT and not out of CLT made them feel less important than their fellow CLT Flight Attendants. I was proud to have been at yesterday's meeting as their representative.

The Company and the AFA will meet over the next two weeks to explore various options to reduce the staffing level in PIT in away that reduces the disruptions to the lives of the PIT Flight Attendants as much as possible. The full US Airways MEC will have to approve of any changes to the way displacements are contractually processed. As the CBS message indicates there are no guarantees but we will try to the best of our ability.

Thank you,

Mike Flores, President
The US Airways MEC
AFA-CWA

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AFA Local Numbers

Council 40 PIT 724-695-3329
Council 41 DCA 703-212-8090
Council 69 BOS 781-289-8454
Council 70 PHL 215-492-0840
Council 82 LGA 315-736-3483
Council 89 CLT 704-527-0325

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