AFA - US
Airways E-Line June 14, 2002
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Contents:
Corrected
August PHW 33F TRIPS & BLOCKS
Changes
to the Employee Travel Program
OSHA Congressional
Supporters
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Corrected
August PHW 33F TRIPS & BLOCKS
Attention PHW Flight Attendants:
THE AUGUST PHW 33F TRIPS
AND BLOCK PACKAGES WERE INITIALLY DISTRIBUTED WITH INCORRECT PAIRING NUMBERS.
TRIP AND BLOCK PACKAGES REFLECTING NUMBERS STARTING WITH "57" ARE INCORRECT.
NEW PACKAGES REFLECTING CORRECT TRIP NUMBERS BEGINNING WITH "92" SHOULD
NOW BE IN BASE.
Changes
to the Employee Travel Program
In an effort to change the
corporate culture, US Airways has announced the following changes to the
Employee Travel program effective August 1, 2002:
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Free term pass travel
in coach for all active employees.
No further payroll deductions
will be taken for travel privileges beginning August 1. And there will
be no employee charge for pass travel in 2003. You, your spouse or domestic
partner, parents and other eligible family members will have unlimited
flight privileges at no charge. (Please note that domestic partners, while
eligible for travel privileges, continue to be subject to tax on imputed
income according to IRS regulations.)
Employees and eligible family
members using the "service charge" method of pass travel will automatically
be converted to free term pass.
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Reduced rates for tickets
on US Airways.
Employees will be eligible
to buy ID-20 tickets. This is a 20 percent discount on most fares that
have an advance purchase requirement. These reduced-rate tickets are not
stand-by. You will travel as a revenue passenger, board with the same priority
as all of our ticketed customers, and will earn Dividend Miles for your
travel. There is no limit to the number of tickets that you can purchase
under this program for travel by yourself and your family members eligible
for pass travel.
Unlike ID-90 tickets and
companion passes, which are based on the Y-Class walk-up fares, the discount
pricing for the ID-20 will apply to publicly available advance purchase
fares, making these even better values and costing you less than most discounted
on- line travel rates. To book these fares, simply call US Airways Reservations
and identify yourself as an employee seeking to purchase a ticket using
your ID-20 discount. As always, please use discretion and call reservations
during non-peak hours.
Our eventual goal is to allow
you to book these discounted tickets directly from usairways.com,
but we did not want to hold up the program while we work through those
technical issues. (Once booking is available through usairways.com, you
will also be able to obtain the 20 percent discount on E-Savers and other
web fares.)
Please note: Even while flying
on an ID-20 revenue ticket, you should be prepared to show your US Airways
ID to confirm your eligibility. Also, these tickets are for personal leisure
travel and cannot be used in conjunction with any business-related travel
or on behalf of any company or organization. And finally, only employees
can actually purchase the tickets on behalf of their family members.
In addition, the same rules
that apply to our customers also will apply to our employee reduced-fare
tickets. These seats may be capacity controlled, require advance purchase,
minimum stays and other restrictions. Tickets are also subject to all taxes/surcharges/fees,
etc. that revenue passengers pay. Reduced rate tickets are not available
for First Class domestic or International First or Envoy Class travel.
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Four free First-Class
upgrades.
We realize that many employees
already have paid for all or most of their 2002 term pass privileges through
payroll deductions. The real benefit of free term pass travel will be realized
next year and in following years. Refunding payments to employees
is not an option this year considering our current financial condition
and associated administrative complications.
So in recognition of amounts
paid by employees to date, the company, this year only, will issue each
employee four free First-Class segment upgrades for domestic pass travel
(including Canada, Central America and the Caribbean). The First-Class
upgrades will be mailed directly to employees' homes and must be used by
December 31, 2003. The free First-Class upgrades are non-refundable and
non-transferable and apply only to pass travel.
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Ability to pay by credit
or debit card.
US Airways is extending
a new convenience to employees. Beginning August 1, companion passes, First-Class
upgrades, ID-90s and the new discounted ID-20 tickets can be purchased
by credit or debit card.
Information regarding
furloughed employees and the Employee Travel program is due shortly.
OSHA
Congressional Supporters
Thank you to everyone who
helped lobby Congress on the important issue of workplace safety and health
protections for flight attendants.
Early this week, Representative
DeFazio's (D-OR) office sent a Congressional letter with 96 co-signers
to FAA Administrator Jane Garvey urging her to relinquish exclusive FAA
control so that OSHA coverage would apply to Flight Attendants.
In the Senate, 18 Senators
co-signed a letter from Senator Durbin (D-IL).
Co-signers to Senator Durbin's
(D-IL) OSHA letter:
Akaka (D-HI)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Clinton (D-NY)
Dayton (D-MN)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Fitzgerald (R-IL)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Levin (D-MI)
Reid (D-NV)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Wellstone (D-MN)
Wyden (D-OR)
Co-signers to Representative
DeFazio's (D-OR) OSHA letter:
Abercrombie (D-HI)
Baca (D-CA)
Berkley (D-NV)
Blagojevich (D-IL)
Blumenauer (D-OR)
Boehlert (R-NY)
Borski (D-PA)
Boswell (D-IA)
Brown, Corrine (D-FL)
Capps (D-CA)
Capuano (D-MA)
Carson, Julia (D-IN)
Clement (D-TN)
Costello (D-IL)
Cummings (D-MD)
Davis, Susan (D-CA)
DeFazio (D-OR)
DeGette (D-CO)
Delahunt (D-MA)
DeLauro (D-CT)
Doyle (D-PA)
Eshoo (D-CA)
Evans (D-IL)
Farr (D-CA)
Filner (D-CA)
Ford (D-TN)
Frank (D-MA)
Ferguson (R-NJ)
Rep. Filner (D-CA)
Frost (D-TX)
Gilchrest (R-MD)
Gutierrez (D-IL)
Harman (D-CA)
Hall (D-OH)
Hilliard (D-AL)
Hinchey (D-NY)
Hoeffel (D-PA)
Holden (D-PA)
Holt (D-NJ)
Honda (D-CA)
Horn (R-CA)
Inslee (D-WA)
Israel (D-NY)
Johnson, E.B. (D-TX)
Kaptur (D-OH)
Kennedy (D-RI)
Kilpatrick (D-MI)
Kleczka (D-WI)
Kucinich (D-OH)
Lampson (D-TX)
Lantos (D-CA)
Larsen (D-WA)
Larson (D-CT)
Lipinski (D-IL)
LoBiondo (D-NJ)
Lofgren (D-CA)
Lowey (D-NY)
Lynch (D-MA)
Maloney, Carolyn (D-NY)
Maloney, Jim (D-CT)
Markey (D-MA)
Mascara (D-PA)
Matsui (D-CA)
McCarthy, Carolyn D-NY)
McCollum (D-MN)
McGovern (D-MA)
McKinney (D-GA)
Meek (D-FL)
Meeks (D-NY)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mink (D-HI)
Miller, George (D-CA)
Napolitano (D-CA)
Nadler (D-NY)
Olver (D-MA)
Pascrell (D-NJ)
Payne (D-NJ)
Pelosi (D-CA)
Phelps (D-IL)
Rahall (D-WV)
Rivers (D-MI)
Roybal-Allard (D-CA)
Schakowsky (D-IL)
Slaughter (D-NY)
Solis (D-CA)
Stark (D-CA)
Tauscher (D-CA)
Thurman (D-FL)
Tierney (D-MA)
Udall, Mark (D-CO)
Udall, Tom (D-NM)
Visclosky (D-IN)
Watt (D-NC)
Waxman (D-CA)
Weiner (D-NY)
Wexler (D-CA)
Woolsey (D-CA)
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