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Dear Members,

This morning US Airways announced plans to change the way the Company does business. Unfortunately the change will be painful for US Airways employees.

The Company has decided in today's economic environment, it must retrench, and deploy assets into the core of the system. According to the Company, the core is the four major hubs - PHL, CLT, DCA and PHX. The Company believes the airline is once again a hub and spoke airline and will redirect efforts to maximize revenue based on a hub and spoke model.

As a result of the new Company plan, the BOS, LGA, and LAS crew domiciles will close in 2010. According to the Company, those domiciles have a cost factor and operational deficiencies that mandate their closure. As a result, Flight Attendant and Pilots will be uprooted from their homes and working domiciles.

Obviously, domicile closures result in tremendous hardships for our members in all domiciles. The AFA will work strenuously to mitigate the effects associated with the new Company plan.

In accordance with contractual and Transition Agreement provisions, the AFA was provided with financial details to justify the domicile closures. In order to justify the domicile closures AFA economic analysts will review the Company's data line by line- dollar for dollar. If the analysis leads the AFA to believe otherwise we will take all the steps necessary to prevent the domicile closures.

The Company plan will result in a loss of almost 1000 jobs system wide. The job losses include a reduction of 130 East Flight Attendants and 20 West Flight Attendants. With respect to Flight Attendants, the Company intends to follow both Collective Bargaining Agreements provisions regarding a "reduction in force". Those provisions do not start with an involuntary furlough. The contractual provisions outline a Voluntary Furlough and Voluntary Separation prior to an Involuntary Furlough. In addition, the Union will insist on a buy-out option for Flight Attendants. More details will follow regarding potential furlough programs.

In summary, the Company's new plan includes the following:

• Closure of the LGA and LAS domiciles effective 1/31/2010
• Closure of the BOS domicile effective 5/2/2010
• Reduction in BOS Caribbean flying effective with the domicile closure
• Reduction of Transatlantic operations from the PHL domicile- the elimination of service to Milan, Stockholm and Shannon. The Company had previously announced the elimination of service from PHL to Birmingham and London Gatwick
• Convert PHL-LRH from 757 to A330-200 equipment
• Convert ZRH and BRU service from seasonal to year round service
• Continue to operate the US Airways Shuttle
• Maintain the remaining E-190 fleet to support off-peak Shuttle flying and additional LGA and BOS service to other non shuttle destinations
• Return the China route authority to the government

The Company's plan will lead to displacements and base realignments. The Company informed the Union of potential changes, however specific numbers are not available at this time.

The AFA remains committed to providing a viable workplace for our members and as such will scrutinize all of the Company's decisions in the finest detail.

Thank you,

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

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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

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