• DO YOUR OWN JOB

• EMERGENCY TRAVEL REQUESTS

• AIRBUS 320 RECONFIGURATION

• PROFIT SHARING CHECKS

• MERGER TRAINING

• PASSING OF FORMER CREW SCHEDULING SUPERVISOR JOE MAYKUTH

• RUMOR CONTROL

• Accessing The Hub

• AFA Local Numbers

DO YOUR OWN JOB

We continue to receive numerous phone calls and emails from members noting that cleaning and catering supplies are either missing or simply deposited on galley or lavatory counters. We are Flight Attendants- not cleaners (except as contractually obligated) or caterers. It is not our job to restock lavatory supplies on the ground. It is not our job to empty ice, beer and wine buckets on the ground-in fact Flight Attendants have been specifically told not to do this on the ground.

Our primary duties during boarding are to greet customers, monitor carry on bags and exit row seating assignments. It is impossible to meet those duties if we are constantly distracted by making sure that someone else did their job. Short turn times and lack of follow through by some other work group put Flight Attendants in the position of not being able to do our job. If we are distracted from our role as Safety Professionals we then potentially jeopardize the safety of the flight and we can not and will not allow that result.

Please continue to do your job and your job only. Do not compromise the safety of the flight simply to get the flight off the gate on time. When you encounter problems notify the Pilot in Command or the gate agent. Sounds good, but this often does not work in practice. Pilots have their job to do as well and the Company's lean staffing often means you may not see the agent until the time of flight closeout. If, at that time, the remedy causes a delay, such delay is neither our fault nor concern. Everyone on the property is paid to do a certain job. We will do our job and our job only.

It is the Company's responsibility to require accountability not ours.

EMERGENCY TRAVEL REQUESTS

The Company issued the following procedure for securing Emergency Travel Requests:

Emergency Travel Requests
February 14, 2007

Effective immediately, all emergency travel requests will be handled by US Airways Inventory Services. The phone contact is: 1 888-260-7169. This office is open 24/7 and will be handling emergency travel requests from active and retired employees for emergency travel regarding death or critical illness of an immediate family member. This will consolidate and centralize emergency travel requests and authorizations and will hopefully allow for smoother and more efficient handling of these situations.

Emergency requests can be made within 48 hours of travel. If you are the employee, please have your immediate supervisor or manager or administrative department contact Inventory Services to request your travel. Please be sure to provide them with all the following information to expedite the request:

EMPLOYEE NAME, ID NUMBER, TITLE, DATE OF HIRE
FAMILY MEMBERS TRAVELING
ROUTING WITH DATES AND FLIGHTS - preferred airline if other than US
NATURE OF EMERGENCY

US Airways and most other carriers will authorize free or reduced-rate travel to employees and their eligible family members (those family members listed on the ETC profile only) traveling due to the death or critical illness of an immediate family member.

An emergency is defined as the death or critical illness of the following people:

• Employee
• Spouse/partner
• Employee's children
• Children of spouse/partner
• Parents of employee
• Parents of spouse/partner
• Brother or sister of employee
• Brother or sister of spouse/partner
• Children in law of employee
• Children in law of spouse/partner
• Grandparents of employee
• Grandparents of spouse/partner
• Grandchildren of employee, spouse/partner

The Company prefers the employee contact their immediate supervisor to make the Emergency Travel Request. After hours requests can be made by contacting crew scheduling who will contact the Inflight Duty Manager. If time constraints prohibit the preferred method, employee can contact the US Airways Inventory Service department directly at the number noted above.

AIRBUS 320 RECONFIGURATION

At the insistence of the Union the AIRBUS 320 will be re-reconfigured to provide more overhead space in First Class. The first stage of the re-reconfiguration, currently taking place, relocate O2 bottles, fire extinguisher, PBE and megaphone. The second phase, relocation of the InFlight Entertainment System to an AFT location, will occur over the next several months as the airplanes go through heavy maintenance checks.

Customer complaints will continue as the re-reconfiguration proceeds. Encourage customers to use the contact information provided in the Inflight magazine to express their complaints. The following is a Company message to it's "Dividend Preferred" customers:

If you've flown in First Class on one of 20 reconfigured A320s then you know that we blew it on the overhead bins by putting everything but the kitchen sink up there (e.g. oxygen tanks, video players, survival gear) and took up space that belongs to you and your bags. We sincerely apologize and we've thrown that process into reverse and will be clearing the bins out ASAP. We've already started getting some of the equipment out and we plan to have them nearly empty no later than the early summer. It was clearly our mistake and you can take it out on us, but please don't take it out on the flight crew; they're on your side on this one. They've let us know loud and clear where we can put our "equipment."

PROFIT SHARING CHECKS

The Company intends to issue profit sharing checks by March 15, 2007. The Company is in the process of tabulating w-2 earnings for all eligible employees. The AFA pool of eligible Fight Attendants includes Flight Attendants from both East and West active on December 31, 2006, Flight Attendants who retired or accepted a VFLR award and had w-2 income in 2006. By court order, the pool does not include members who resigned or were terminated who had w-2 earnings in 2006. I have been asked to provide exact numbers but as we are in the process of tabulation and verification, and until that process is complete, I can only provide a rough number of 4600 East Flight Attendants and 2700 West Flight Attendants. (*** note: this is an estimate, the exact number of eligible Flight Attendants has not been verified to date).

The AFA's share of the 58 million dollar pool is 14.5% or roughly 8.5 million dollars. Everyone's share will be based on individual w-2 earnings and therefore will vary.


MERGER INTEGRATION TRAINING

Merger Integration Training for East Flight Attendants began on January 6, 2007 and concludes on April 30, 2007. The new procedures contained in the training will be implemented by the Company on May 1, 2007. The FAA requires that in order to remain legal a Flight Attendant must complete Merger Integration Training by that date. Failure to complete training by that date will result in an illegality flag and you will not be permitted to fly until training is completed.

The new procedures that will be instituted on May 1, 2007 do not mean the airline and work groups will be fully integrated on that date. The terms of the Transition Agreement between the Company and the AFA will govern our operation as specified below:

The airline operations of America West and US Airways, with respect to flight attendants, shall be merged no later than twelve (12) months following the later of (i) completion of the integrated flight attendant seniority list and (ii) negotiation of the Single Agreement provided that if by that date a single FAA operating certificate has not been issued, the airline operations, with respect to flight attendants, will be merged effective with the first bid period following thirty (30) days after the issuance of such certificate. The Airline Parties will make every reasonable effort in good faith to secure a single FAA operating certificate for America West and US Airways as promptly as practicable. The merger of the airline operations, with respect to flight attendants, under this paragraph is defined as the "Operational Flight Attendant Integration."

The Company anticipates a single operating certificate from the FAA sometime in May or June. Once the company is awarded a single operating certificate Flight Attendants will still be governed by the terms of the Transition Agreement until the two other components, a ratified merged agreement and merged seniority list have been attained.

The merged seniority list (date of hire) will only be presented to the Company upon completion and ratification of a merged single agreement.

NEGOTIATIONS UPDATE

The Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) will meet in session with the Company on February 20-22 in CLT. At our last session, the JNC and the Company reached a Tentative Agreement on USA Section 18, Filling of Vacancies. The T/ A is modeled after the current East contract but does contain new language allowing for both displaced and furloughed Flight Attendants the ability to exercise a "priority right of return" to allow for a return to her/his former domicile when subsequent vacancies occur. Our current contract only allowed this practice for those who were displaced and did not allow it for those who were furloughed and displaced while on furlough or were recalled to a base other than the one they were furloughed from. The Union and the Company agreed to extend the priority return language to furloughed/displaced Flight Attendants late last year and this T/A memorializes that agreement.

The JNC and the Company have continued to trade proposals on Training, LOD/O, and Reduction in Personnel. Although we have not reached Tentative Agreements in these sections we have secured AGREED TO provisions in all of the open section. At next week's session we will also present our proposals for Leaves of Absence and TDY.

The process is slow for two reasons; 1) we are being very meticulous in our approach and are not leaving any "dangling ends" and, 2) we absolutely will not agree to a contract that does not meet the needs of our members.

PASSING OF FORMER CREW SCHEDULING SUPERVISOR JOE MAYKUTH

Former Flight Attendant Crew Scheduling Supervisor, Joe Maykuth, passed away on Tuesday February 13, 2007. He was preceded in death by his wife Tammi Maykuth on November 27, 2006 and leaves behind three children

Joe was always easy to work with and although he had left the Company several years ago, he will be remembered and missed by many.

There will be no viewing. A private family service will be held at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Maykuth Children's Fund at 2676 Brodhead Road, Aliquippa, Pa. 15001.
 

RUMOR CONTROL

There is a rumor going around on line I need to address. I have received calls from Flight Attendants, and in fact approached in person, with the rumor that I am actively seeking other employment opportunities. Furthermore, the talk is that I am not 100% focused on my job as MEC President. Nothing could be farther from the truth. I am not seeking other employment and I have no plans to do so. I have no choice but to be 100% focused as, in the end, I am a Flight Attendant first and a Union leader second.

Thank you,

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

Accessing The Hub:

http://thehub.usairways.com 
Logging in the first time your user name is u0(zero) and your five digit employee number. Your initial password is the first five digits of your social security number. Questions about the Hub? Please contact the EDS Help Desk at 336-744-6000 for assistance. More information can also be found HERE.

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

New Hotline Number Toll Free: 866-USA-AFA2
US AIRWAYS Benefits Information 800-872-4780

Reply to Inflight: askinflight@usairways.com

Got Questions? Get Answers

The *E-Line* is now in a new and improved format. By updating your profile at unionvoice.org you will be able to enjoy improved services in the near future! Visit your subscription management page at: http://www.unionvoice.org/

Got questions about This *E-Line* from AFA - US Airways or any other Union matter? Do NOT REPLY to the *E-Line*. PLEASE contact your local AFA officers or committee chairs directly: http://www.afausairways.org/emailaddresses2.htm

Your MEC Officers
Association of Flight Attendants
Hotline & *E-Line* - US Airways