FAILURE TO ATTEND TRAINING
We have clarified with Labor Relations and PHL Inflight Services exactly what is and is not a Failure to Attend Training. If you have received a Failure to Attend Training letter from your Inflight Supervisor, please contact the AFA office at 215-492-0840 so we can review your file. PHL Inflight has recently been issuing discipline for what is essentially a rescheduling. If you call Training Registration any time prior to the close of business, which is 4:30pm, the day before your training, this is a rescheduling and not a Failure to Attend training. If you call after Training Registration has closed or, if you call off same day training (prior to the start of your class), this is a failure to attend but it is not a dependability infraction. The only time this would be considered an infraction is if you fail to show up for your training. Any Failure to Attend training letter in your file that was a rescheduling or a same day call-off will be removed from your file. Any discipline as a result of a Failure to Attend will be rescinded unless you actually failed to show up for training without notification prior to the start of your training.

PAYROLL SURVEY REOPENED
Last week, we asked the company to reopen the Payroll Survey because of feedback we were receiving from our members. The company notified me yesterday that the survey has reopened and will be open for two weeks, so disregard the ‘May 29’ date on the survey page. The survey will only take about sixty seconds and you can get there by clicking on this link:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=5kGsIMybDmCpSvCzmevw1Q_3d_3d

TEL AVIV (TLV) DOUBLE UP
We received some reports from our members who had attended A330-200/Cultural Differences Training and were told that you would not be allowed to ‘Double-Up’ on TLV trips. This is not true. The TLV-PHL flight arrives at 0510 and the PHL-TLV flight departs at 2115. This is a 16+05 block-to-block break and it is legal to double-up on this trip.

FRESH LOOK FOR AFA
The AFA International Website has a new look. Check it out at: www.afanet.org

In Regards,