Dear Fellow Flight Attendants,

Two issues have been brought to my attention involving the cleaning of aircraft in DCA. Upon arrival into DCA the inbound crew had completed their cleaning duties of their inbound aircraft. Upon completion of the aircraft tidying the crew was notified that there would be an unscheduled aircraft change. The cabin crew along with the flight deck crew made the change only to find out the substitute aircraft was an aircraft which had just arrived from an airport West of Kansas City. The Customer Service Agent then requested the cabin crew clean the aircraft for their flight to LGA. This is a task that should be performed by the station personnel but is not a requirement under Section 30 E. as noted below.

I have addressed these issues with Ms. Sharon Haynes-Windham, DCA Base Manager Inflight Services. Ms Haynes-Windham met with station management this morning and has advised me this should not be a problem in the future since the company has made the decision to once again dedicate 13 aircraft to be utilized exclusively for the Shuttle Market (BOS-DCA-LGA). In the event that an alternate aircraft is utilized please refer to the Section 30. E. below.

E. Cabin Cleaning Duties

1. Flight attendants may be required to complete cabin cleaning duties, as defined below, at every domestic station and Nassau (NAS) following such flight segments, with the exception of the following:

a. Transoceanic flight segments;

b. NTI segments other than NAS;

c. Flight segments immediately preceding the scheduled RON of the aircraft;

d. Flight segments immediately following a scheduled red-eye;

e. Or immediately following any segment that originates or terminates in an airport west of Kansas City.

2. Such cabin cleaning duties shall be defined as, and limited to, the following: collecting papers and refuse in the cabin of the aircraft; crossing seatbelts; stowing pillows and blankets in the overhead compartments; removing visible items from the seatback pockets; and collecting and stowing magazines as applicable. A flight attendant will not be required to perform such cabin cleaning duties after the conclusion of his/her duty day.

3. No flight attendant will be required to engage in any individual cabin cleaning duty where doing so violates the scope provision then - governing any other non-flight attendant who both is employed by US Airways, Inc. and represented by any other union. Flight attendants,
however, will be required to perform all the cabin cleaning duties defined above even in instances where the Company has contracted vendor cleaners on duty.

In Solidarity,

Rob Wessinger
LEC President
Council 82 -LGA
rwessinger@afausairways.org
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