5.07.19 – APFA ORD Base Brief – Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

 

Hello ORD! We would like to welcome all Flight Attendants who have transferred into the Base. We are happy to have you all here!

The monthly allocation meeting took place last week. Most of the data we received is available to you on the Crew Portal Bidding Dashboard–targeted lineholder, reserve, total bidder and line average. We will continue to share these numbers and any pertinent information from the call and latest base news.

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June PBS Bidding:
June PBS Bid Opens on May 10th at Noon (DFW time)
June PBS Bid Closes on May 15th at Noon (DFW time)

Flight Attendant Bidding Resource Center (FABRC) Support:
888-376-5375
The FABRC is open 0600 – 2200 (DFW time) 7 days/week

APFA PBS Misaward Challenge Form

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Allocations Call Highlights:

• Once again, ORD and other bases addressed the increase in sit time built into many sequences. This will continue at least thru July.  It is driven by Network Planning and a maintenance schedule that continues to change the path of an aircraft after sequences are created and added to the bid packet. Crew Resources is building extra time in the pairings to accommodate for unplanned aircraft changes.
• 737 MAX is not built into the June schedule.
• There is an increase in 2-day sequences at the expense of the 3-day. We could not receive a clear answer on what caused the change. We voiced our concern with the increase, and will continue to monitor the issue. The 1-day percentage is flat, and 4-day sequences decreased slightly.
• Please continue to share your feedback on the sequences.

TARGETED JUNE NUMBERS

Lineholder: 1843
Reserves: 313
VLOAs: 0
Line Average: 81.1
June hours ORD: 135,144
June hours MSP: 1,021

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New Hires: Please give a warm welcome to our 78 New Hire FAs.  41 report on 5/23, 10 on 5/30 and 27 on 6/6.

737 MAX & 737 OASIS MARCH Pay Protections: The week of MAY 6, FAs should see a separate check in ePays for any pay protection owed from March. Please complete a Direct Connect if your pay is missing.

TTS/UBL: The UBL Generic Bid-Pickup option is live. This allows you to pick up trips day-of or next day using generic properties versus specific sequences. Click Here for more information.

Training Reminder: Since February, the TBS system is used for bidding CQ training. TBS is only available in your base month, grace month or 1 month early. Bidding opens on the first calendar day of the month and closes on the sixth calendar day. More info is in the attached JSIC hotline

Early Boarding:  As a reminder, Sections 11.M and 14.F of the JCBA specifically state when Flight Attendants will be required to be onboard the aircraft ready to receive passengers.   Document  all violations. The data will be used to support the Presidential Grievance.
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System Issues: Please continue to use the Scheduling System Issues Report Form on the APFA website to report TTS/ETB/ROTA issues.  Our team continues to work for resolutions to violations and program fixes. Click here for report form

Professional Standards: We strongly suggest using Professional Standards as your first resource when trying to resolve conflict with other employees.  This is a peer to peer support team manned by FAs.  Jillian Bocenda is the National Coordinator and ORD Lead rep 847-828-1431.

Uniforms: The APFA continues to document uniform reaction issues. Click here for report form

As always, we remain available for questions. Please include your employee number when you communicate with us.  If you contact other union reps for the same issue, say that as well so work is not duplicated.

In Unity,

Susan Wroble
APFA ORD Base President
630-802-2268
[email protected]

Dray Howard
APFA ORD Base Vice President
630-215-8410
[email protected]

Justin Patterson
APFA ORD Base Council Rep.
509-720-0067
[email protected]