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Dear Members,

NON-REVENUE BOARDING CHANGES TO FULL DATE OF HIRE

Effective April 29, 2009, the Company will change the non-revenue boarding method from "Year of Hire" to full (dd/mm/yy) date of hire.

Prior to the merger between US Airways and America West the two companies used different methods of determining non-revenue boarding. US Airways used date of hire and America West used first-come first-serve to determine non-revenue boarding.

In an effort to combine the two methods, the Company announced in January 2007, a new system wide policy, based on "Year of Hire".

The Association of Flight Attendants (AFA-CWA) filed a grievance in February 2007 citing contract language in our Collective Bargaining Agreement that Flight Attendants use their date of initial training or Seniority Integration Date (SID), whichever is applicable, to determine non-revenue boarding. It should be noted that AFA-CWA is the only labor group on the property that has contractual language to determine non-revenue boarding based on a specific date.

The Company denied the grievance based on their interpretation that Company policy, rather than contract language, determined non-revenue boarding. An arbitration to hear the dispute was scheduled for November 29 and 30, 2007. Shortly before the arbitration, the Company cancelled the arbitration and a series of settlement talks ensued.

Since Company policy cannot trump contract language, the Company agreed with the Union's position regarding full date of hire, or SID, to determine non-revenue boarding and agreed to settle the grievance.

At the time of the settlement talks, the Company admitted the Shares reservation system did not have the functionality necessary to reflect full date of hire and committed to make the necessary programming changes by the end April 2009.

That day has come, and full date of hire for non-revenue boarding will begin tomorrow.

If you have already created a listing for April 29, 2009 or after, your year of hire will automatically be changed to your full date of hire. If you feel the date is inaccurate, cancel the original listing and re-list. If you still believe there is a problem you may email the Company at DOH@usairways.com to have the date corrected.

Thank you,

Mike Flores, President
The US Airways Master Executive Council
AFA-CWA

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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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