Contents:

• NEW FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION SECURITY REGULATIONS
• Disclosure of Felony Convictions
• Collection of Accurate Passport Information
• Report Inappropriate Conduct of Security Screeners

Next week (week of January 7) the Company and ALPA will negotiate intensely on the issue of Regional Jet flying.  The impact of these negotiations on flight attendants will not be known until an agreement is reached between ALPA and the Company.  Check the Hotline, website, and AFA crew room bulletin boards for more information about Regional Jet flying as it becomes available.

If you are a flight attendant with a felony conviction within the last ten years, you are now required to report this information immediately to the company.  The company, while not required to provide this information to the FAA, has determined that these employees will be immediately placed on an administrative suspension.  While this is not considered a disciplinary suspension, it will be without pay.  The company has not determined whether it will contest unemployment claims which result from these administrative suspensions.

If you are an affected employee, there is no way to determine how long you will remain on administrative leave.  In addition, the company has not determined whether any subsequent disciplinary action will be taken as a result of the disclosure.  If you have information to disclose, please contact your local union office prior to contacting the company.

Neither the Union nor the Company has information regarding the length of time this new directive will last.

Also, all employees with access to secured areas will be fingerprinted by the end of 2002.

The Aviation and Transportation Security Act signed into law by President Bush last November, requires US Airways, as an international carrier, to supply the government with accurate crew information for every flight entering or exiting the United States.  To ensure Company compliance, Inflight Services is requiring each US AIRWAYS Flight Attendant to take the following steps:

1) Make a legible copy of your picture/information page of your Passport.  For those flight attendants who are not United States Citizens, make a legible copy of your picture/information page of your passport and a copy of your resident alien card or Visa.

2) On the photocopy, please include your Inflight Supervisor's name, your employee number, base, and the country of which you claim to be a citizen.

3) Please fax or drop off this information to your respective Inflight Supervisor's office NO LATER than Friday, JANUARY 11, 2002.

This information will update the Company's internal database and will allow US AIRWAYS to be compliant with Section 117 of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act.

Those flight attendants who do not currently possess a passport will be required to obtain a valid passport and provide this information to their supervisor at the earliest possible time.  If you have questions, please contact your Inflight Supervisor.

Some flight attendants are reporting that they are the targets of abusive behavior, including illicit touching by security screeners.

If you are targeted for a hand pat-down and are uncomfortable being patted-down by a screener of another sex, ask for a "same sex pat-down".  If the screener refuses, ask to see the security supervisor on duty or ask to see airport police.

Here's what you should do if a security screener targets you for abusive behavior:

* Ask to see the security supervisor on duty.  If the supervisor is unavailable, ask the screener to call airport police.  Let them know that you are not objecting to the increased security and screening, but feel that you are being abused by the screener.

* File a report of the incident with the supervisor or airport police. Be sure to also report the incident to your AFA Local Council.  In your report, include your name, airline, domicile, location of the incident, time, date, and if possible, the name of the security company and the name of the screener.  You can also report an incident on-line at http://www.afanet.org.

While increased security measures are necessary, inappropriate treatment of crew members is unacceptable.  And depending on the circumstances of the incident, it may be illegal.

For action to be taken to correct the abuse, you must report the incident.  To stop abuse of crew members by security screening personnel and to pursue any potential legal action that's appropriate, we must have factual reports of incidents.

To report inappropriate treatment at the hands of airport screeners call your AFA Local Council or go on-line at http://www.afanet.org.