12.03.24 – APFA MIA Base Brief – January 2025 Staffing and Allocations

January 2025 MIA Staffing and Allocations

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

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Bid Sheet and Staffing

The Contractual Month for January is January 1 – 30. The January schedule change is on January 7.

PBS Preliminary Manning Plan – January 2025

The available headcount for January is 3,436. This is an increase of 61 heads year–over-year, but down 14 heads from December. The line average will be 77.8 hours at PBS opening.

There will be 72 Voluntary Leaves of Absence (VLOAs) offered for January. Flight Attendants opting to take the VLOA will continue to accrue sick and vacation and pay active medical rates.

In December, all Flight Attendants, other than those that held Vacation Low were held to a 70-hour minimum. Be sure to back yourself up with a higher Target Credit Range (TCR) in later layers when bidding.

Reserve Projections

We are projected to have 746 Reserves for January, which represents 22.2% of the base. Our Reserve numbers are 1.3% higher than December, and .5% lower than January 2024.

The Reserve seniority for December at the start of PBS was March 24, 2022. For January, the most senior Reserve will be at seniority March 12, 2018 with a system seniority number of 19144.

Good news! Recruiting has restarted. We don’t have any numbers to share at this point, but new hires are always welcome!

Flying Summary

EZE will operate two daily trips, one on the 777-200 and one on the 787-8. GIG will operate three times weekly on the 777-200 and daily on the 787-8. GRU will operate two daily flights with a Rocket on the 777-200, and a 40-hour layover on the 777-300. LHR will operate two daily flights 777-300. CDG and MVD will operate daily on the 787-8. MAD and BCN operate on the 777-200.

For NIPD, the CUN turn will operate for the first week on the 787-8.

For domestic, the LAX 777-300 turn will operate for the first week. A one-one PHL with a 30-hour layover operates daily, and there is a LAS turn on the 787-8 that operates for the first half of the month.

IPD Flying

• LHR-777-300 Daily (2)
• BCN-777-200 Daily
• MAD-777-200 Daily
• GRU-777-300 Daily, 777-200 Daily
• EZE-787-8 Daily, 777-200 Daily
• GIG-787-8 Daily, 777-200 (3X per week)
• CDG-787-8 Daily
• MVD-787-8 Daily

Wide-body Domestic

• PHL-787-8 1/1, 30-hour layover
• LAS-787-8 turn (2 weeks)
• LAX-777-300 turn (1 week)

ODANs

• MCO, TPA, JAX, MSY

Turns

• NIPD: HAV, SJU, SDQ, CUN, STT, SKB, POP, STI, PTY, SXM, CTG, CUR, SJO, AUA, LIR, XPL, GUA, SCU, BON, VRA, KIN, LRM, MID, RTB, CMWDOM: DCA, ATL, EWR, MSY, PHX, DEN, AUS, RDU, LAS, SLC, LGA, IAH, EGE, PIT, CHS, BHM, TPA, MEM

Block Hours

• MIA: 178,957
• ATL: 1,895
• FLL: 4,807
• MCO: 2,573
• PBI: 3,728

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Voluntary Leaves of Absence (VLOA)

The Company is offering full-month unpaid VLOAs for the month of January. MIA is planning to award 72 unpaid VLOAs.

Bidding for January VLOAs closes December 7 at 1300 (ET). Check your HI-10 after 1800 (ET) on December 7. The bidding ballot is in:

Comply365 > My Forms > AAFA > FA Voluntary Leave of Absence (VLOA)

Status Information

• Lineholder: If your status indicates you are a Lineholder then you will be considered a Lineholder when they process VLOAs regardless of your toggle onto Reserve. If awarded as a Lineholder, you will be set as Inactive in the LRD tool, a toggle to RSV will not be considered, and you will not receive credit for Reserve.
• Reserve: If your status indicates you are a Reserve then you will be a Reserve in processing.
• Tentative: If you are designated Tentative, the default in LRD is Lineholder so you will be processed as a Lineholder.

Eligibility for VLOA

VLOAs are awarded with your seniority, at our base:  Lineholders are awarded until all available leaves are awarded or there are no more requests. If there are still more leaves after Lineholders, then Reserves are awarded.

VLOAs not awarded: If you are on an absence ending on or after January 1 or have expired qualifications you will not be awarded.

Benefits, Seniority, and Travel

Seniority: You will continue to accrue all seniorities; company, pay, and bidding.

Benefits: On VLOA you will accrue vacation and sick time. You will continue to pay your normal contribution rates for Medical/Vision/Dental/Life insurances, but since you will not receive a paycheck, you will be billed.

Travel: Your travel privileges will remain the same as if you are active. This includes D1 and other airlines (OAL).

Reserve Credit:  If you are awarded a VLOA as a Reserve, you will NOT get credit for the month (CBA 12.A.4.b.). Probationary Flight Attendants awarded a VLOA will have the probationary period extended by the number of days of the leave.

General

If you have a carry-over trip from December in to January, you are responsible for that trip. You may fly it or drop it. If you are awarded a VLOA and subsequently drop a carry-over trip, you should notify the Base Planner via the FA Support Tab on Crew Portal so they can adjust the start of your leave.

Any scheduled vacation in January will be paid as though you are active.

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Incentive Point and Holiday Pay 2024 – 2025

Flight attendants that work all operational assignments (sequences, standby, RAPs, and special assignments) and have no absences or removals (sick, FMLA, jury duty, military, PO, bereavement, etc.), including pre/planned absences and removals, on days during the critical period will accrue one incentive point to be used for a future event.

New Contractual language states that if either the departure time of the flight (local station time) or the arrival time of the flight (local station time) touches or was scheduled to touch the actual holiday, holiday pay would apply to the entire segment flown.

APFA Holiday Pay Hotline

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Charters

With the implementation of new CBA language, some charters require a two-hour sign-in prior to departure. You will receive an additional 1.15 hours of pay (PNC).

The additional will appear as a separate line item on your HI1 and pay may not be added until Crew Comp makes the adjustment at close-out, usually by the 9^th of the next month.

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Inflight Website

The company is slowly sunsetting the Inflight website. Everything will be eventually transferred to Crew Portal and/or Comply 365.

“Upcoming Events” are now on Crew Portal. You can change your setting to “Display Upcoming Events” on your calendar. Once set, the dates on the calendar with events will have a shaded circle. When you hover over the date with the shade circle, the details of the event will populate. Here is how to find the toggle:

In addition to toggling to allow upcoming events to display on your calendar, all upcoming events can be viewed by clicking the carrot on the “Upcoming Events” tab.

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From the Professional Standards Desk
Professional Standards rep Gina Blakely may be reached on 917.749.5032 for December.

Please use Professional Standards for issues you are unable to resolve on the airplane. Keep it out of the office.

Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year!

In Solidarity,

Randy Trautman
APFA MIA Base President
[email protected]

Heidi Morgan
APFA MIA Base Vice President
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