Contents:

• May Supplemental Bid
• DCA Council 41 Meeting
• Newsclips:
• Mineta To Propose Full Service At National
• Air Travel Seen as Safer

May Supplemental Bid

Beginning in May 2002, US Airways will reinstate daily CLT to FRA service.  Additionally, A330 CLT to LGW service will be staffed with PHW flight attendants.

As a result, there is a need for additional flight attendant positions in CLW and PHW (Charlotte Transoceanic Domicile and Philadelphia Transoceanic Domicile). There may also be contingent openings in PIW due to ITD transfers effective May 1, 2002.

The May ITD Supplemental Bid is now open for bid and will close Tuesday, March 12, 2002 @ 1200.

This bid period begins May 1, 2002 and ends December 31, 2002.

In conjunction with your MEC Officers and US Airways, the ITD Supplemental Bid Packet is now available online. You may read the question and answer section, the memo from Senior Director Inflight Services, Rob Fuhr, and print and fax or mail the ITD Supplemental Bid Form, all from your home or office. Go to: http://afausairways.org/Supplemental/bid.html

Date:   Thursday, March 7, 2002
Time:   10:30am - 1:00pm
Where:  Hampton Inn
        5821 Richmond HWY
        Alexandria, VA
        703-329-1400

Agenda: Security Issues
        DEC DCA-BWI
        New Business

Mineta To Propose Full Service At National
By Katherine Shaver
Washington Post Staff Writer

Tuesday, February 26, 2002; Page A08

U.S.  Transportation Secretary Norman Y.  Mineta will propose next month that Reagan National Airport be allowed to return to its pre-Sept.  11 number of commercial flights, a spokesman said yesterday.

Chet Lunner said that Mineta will present a full reopening plan to the White House, Secret Service and other agencies that have controlled the airport's fate since the terrorist hijackings.  That group would make the decision, Lunner said.

"It's a proposal," Lunner said. "It's not a guarantee."

Mineta has always wanted National to return to full operations because of its importance to the Washington region and the country's aviation system, Lunner said.  Mineta will propose the full reopening sometime in March, Lunner said, because airline security "is becoming more robust all the time."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2247-2002Feb25.html 

Air Travel Seen as Safer
Poll Also Finds Most Americans Would Pitch in to Stop a Terrorist
Analysis By Dalia Sussman
[ABCNEWS.com]

N E W  Y O R K, Feb.  26   Fear of air terrorism has declined since Sept.  11, people who've flown say overwhelmingly that security is better and if the worst did happen, Americans by 2-1 say they'd follow Todd Beamer's example and fight airborne terrorists.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/airsafety_poll020225.html