6.06.25 – APFA DCA Base Brief – July 2025 Staffing and Allocations

July 2025 DCA Staffing and Allocations

Friday, June 6, 2025

There will be no Voluntary Leaves of Absence (VLOAs) offered for July.

When PBS processing begins, if additional Lineholders are needed, those with Reserve status will be changed to Lineholder status in the following order:

1. Tentative Flight Attendants whose preference was Lineholder in the LRD process.
2. Reserve Flight Attendants who toggled to Pref LH in the LRD who were unable to hold Lineholder status in LRD.
3. Most junior Reserve Flight Attendants involuntarily moved to Lineholder status after all the above have been utilized.

Important: If you are in one of these 3 categories above, you will want to bid 7 layers of Reserve and 7 layers of Lineholder in PBS.

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• DCA: 48,684 (-275)
• IAD: 1,872 (+115)
• BWI: 3,500 (+57)

56,056 total flying hours (DCA, IAD, BWI) ( -103 month-over-month) (+6,826 year-over-year)

Year-over-year block hours has increased by 18.1% and headcount has increased by 99 Flight Attendants.

• July will not be a flex month.
• The contractual targeted credit range default is 70-90.
• July will have an opening line average of 81.5.  This opening line average is down 1.3 from July 2024.
• DCA’s July most senior Reserve with system seniority of 26,270 (March 21, 2024).

July Events and Timelines

• Independence Day: Friday, July 4

Allocations Notes for July

• Total sequences 903 (DCA, IAD, BWI)
• DCA Sequences: 823
• ODANS:
  • BOS operates 3 days
  • BTV operates 29 days
  • CHS operates 22 days
• DCA
  • Zero Charter/ honor flights
  • NAS turns operate 30 days
  • LAX turns operate 30 days
  • PHX ‘pink eye’ operates 30 days
  • DFW AM turns operates 26 days
  • FLL AM turns operate 27 days
  • SRQ AM turns operate 31 days
  • PBI AM turns operate 18 days
  • CLT AM turns operate 8 days
  • DFW PM turns operate 29 days
  • TPA PM turns operate 24 days
  • MSY PM turns operate 27 days
  • 5 Spanish speaker positions
  • Canada RONs YYC and YYZ
  • NIPD RONs BDA-,8 days BGI -2 days, CUN-1 day, GEO,1 day MDE 1 day, MTY2 days, POS,15 days, SDQ1 day
• BWI
  • 52 sequences
  • CLT turns operate 5 days
  • DFW turns operate 2 days
  • 1 day 3 leg- day operating 29 days, pays 7+ hours
  • No A319/320 flying
  • No NIPD RONs
• IAD
  • 28 sequences ( +1 sequence from June 2025)
  • One Charter- 13803
  • No NIPD RONS
• Sit times with 2.31 hours or more
  • DCA: 321
  • IAD: 11
  • BWI: 20

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Scheduled Duty Days:

• <8 hours: 46.5%
• 8-10 hours: 26.3%
• 0-12 hours: 23.3%
• >12 hours: 3.9%

Scheduled Legs in Duty Day:

• 1-leg: 32.7%
• 2-legs: 51.0%
• 3-legs: 15.2%
• 4-legs: 1.1%

Scheduled Layover Rest:

• < 11 hours: 0.2%
• 11-12 hours: 5.2%
• 12-14 hours: 30.6%
• 16-18 hours: 16.3%
• >24 hours: 11.7%

Scheduled Sit Times:

• 2-2.5 hours: 11.4%
• 2.5-3 hours: 10.3%
• >3 hours: 3.4%

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July 2025 Bidding Timelines

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July 2025 System Reserve Seniority

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Class 25-10

Class 25-11

Class 25-12

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July Incentive Point / Critical Period
July 1 – July 7

During the July Critical Period, which is from July 1 to July 7, if you complete all operational assignments (sequences, airport standby assignments, Reserve Availability Periods (RAPs), and special assignments) without any absences or removals (such as Sick, FMLA, Jury Duty, Military, Personal, Bereavement, etc.), including pre-planned absences and removals, you will earn one (1) incentive point. These incentive points will help reduce future point-generating dependability events.

You can earn up to three (3) incentive points per year, and there is no limit on the total number of incentive points you can accumulate, and they do not expire.

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DCA Flight Attendant Aircraft Qualifications

• B787: 819 FA’s qualified
• B777: 823 FA’S qualified
• B737: 824 FA’s qualified
• A320 series: 824 FA’s qualified

Of course, we have been asking for IPD flying for those of you who are interested since the base is almost fully trained on widebody aircraft. I know it’s a wish list, but we will keep pushing!

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2025-26 CQ Module Update

Many of you have sent over to APFA documentation on the amount of time it took to complete the modules for your annual CQT. With that information, APFA was successful in asking the company to take another look at the training material in these modules and management has removed some content from the 2025–2026 CQ WBT. APFA will ensure that these changes comply with the contract language. For Flight Attendants who completed the 2025–26 CQ modules prior to this update, we will be addressing the extended completion timeframe with management.

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BWI Parking

It is that time of year to sign up for BWI crew parking. The current parking hang tags will expire June 30, 2025. I was recently informed that the company will limit the number of tags that are processed, like the contract violation last fall with the IAD parking debacle.

I will be meeting with the company about what this looks like and will insist that the contract not be violated.

A notice of dispute (NOD)was filed last year siting contract violations with IAD parking permits, this NOD is going through the stages of the grievance department, and we are awaiting the next step in the process.
We will not accept anything less than following the contract pertaining to co- terminal parking.

You can read the contract language in Section 4 – Expenses of the CBA.

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Inflight Management Structure Changes

As many of you may have heard the inflight management structure as we know it will be changing on June 9. The APFA board of directors met with Bobbi Wells and her team at the end of May to gain a better understanding of these upcoming changes and at that time we were informed that the company was still finalizing the details.

With June 9th quickly approaching, we are still waiting for official communication from the company regarding what the DCA inflight structure will look like, what we do know at this point is that there will be separate performance and attendance manager. We will provide more information and address any questions once the company releases its formal communication.

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Employee Lot Security

Cameras in the employee parking lot – most recently it was brought to our attention that the employee parking lot does not have security cameras monitoring the lot itself but has cameras that are focused on the runway. This is a contradiction to what we were told last summer. We recently raised this concern again with the AA base leadership and the AA airport management. The busy summer season is upon us and the allowance of ride share drivers and others to be in the employee lot is unacceptable. The lot should be secured and only employees should be allowed there. Safety and Security should be the top priority.

Local APFA and local Government Affairs will continue to advocate for a safe place, working with other unions and work groups will also benefit us.

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APFA.org

Click Here for the latest updates from the Contract Implementation Committee (CIC) outlining all changes implemented since the Date of Signing (DOS).

Please take time to review and familiarize yourself with these changes if you have any questions don’t hesitate to reach out or Contact the CIC.

If you have not received the new APFA swag (lanyard and pin) please reach out to one of your local base council reps or union officials to get yours, it’s important that all DCA flight attendants proudly wear the new swag to show unity and DCA pride.

You can also order on the APFA membership Store.

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In Solidarity,

John Pennel
APFA DCA Base President
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Dianne Britton
APFA DCA Base Vice President
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Lisa Barnes
APFA DCA Base Council Representative – Allocations
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