1.03.23 – APFA ORD Base Brief – February 2024 Staffing and Allocations

February 2024 Staffing and Allocations

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Happy 2024 to everyone! Whether you celebrated at home with friends and family, enjoyed time alone, or worked a trip – 2024 will be a good year!

2024 will hopefully be the year our work group finally receives the recognition from the company we deserve in an industry-leading CONTRACT. We are all APFA – together, we will continue to be united, pushing for what we deserve.

COVID Leave – Reminder

Due to an uptick in COVID cases, more people need time off related to COVID. To receive point mitigation for COVID, Flight Attendants must present a positive proctored COVID test with their name and date of testing clearly visible.

This recode must be submitted via Comply365 within seven days of testing positive.

Accepted tests include polymerase chain reaction (PCR) or antigen (“rapid”) tests administered by pharmacies, local testing centers, or healthcare provider offices. At-home tests that do not meet these specific criteria are not qualifying tests.

This benefit applies to all Flight Attendants, whether on probation or not.

If you have any questions, please get in touch with the APFA Health Department at [email protected].

Allocations

The winter lull in international and wide-body flying took its toll on flying for February. For most of February, there is only one IPD trip until the 27th of February when another London resumes.

Super Bowl on February 11 results in an uptick in flying to/from Vegas.

Domestic wide-body flying consists of the following:

• 1 daily MCO turn February 1-14
• DFW turns (with DH) February 15 and 17

Turn percentages continue to be lower than we and the company would like. The goal is around 30% for turns. We appreciate the effort to increase our turn numbers.

ODANs increased over January’s allocations. We will keep an eye on how they are being flown.

Staffing

The Reserve percentage for Chicago is 19.3% vs the system average of 18.9%

The line average for Chicago at PBS open is expected to be 80.0 vs the system average of 80.0.

Sequence Starts Per Day

Important Dates

• February 11 – Super Bowl 2024 in Las Vegas
• February 13 – Worldwide Flight Attendant Day of Action
• February 14 – Valentine’s Day
• February 19 – Presidents’ Day

Trip Construction

• 1-day: 22% in February vs 25% in January
• 2-day: 36% in February vs 30% in January
• 3-day: 38% in February vs 40% in January
• 4 plus-day: 4% in February vs. 5% in January
• ODAN Starts per day: 15.7 in February vs 12.5 in January

PBS Preliminary Manning Plan

In Solidarity,

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

Justin Patterson
APFA ORD Base Vice President
(509) 720-0067
[email protected]