2.03.25 – APFA ORD Base Brief – March 2025 Staffing and Allocations

March 2025 ORD Staffing and Allocations

Monday, February 3, 2025

The March staffing and allocations call was held today, February 3rd.

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PBS Basics Townhall – Now Posted 

The PBS Basics class hosted on January 6th was a hit with people who wanted a basic understanding of PBS for line bidding. Thank you again to everyone who attended. This type of training was a success, and we plan to do this again in the future, we will communicate dates when they are scheduled.

For those who may have missed it, here is a link to the video: ORD PBS Basics Class

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2025 New Hires

Chicago is set to receive new hires in March. Welcome them with open arms! We hope to see a steady stream of new hires over the 2025 hiring months.

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Important Dates

The Contractual Month for March is March 2 – March 31.

• March 8: Spring flying uptick
• March 9: Daylight Saving Time (Spring Forward)
• March 17: St. Patrick’s Day

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Allocations

March is the start of our IPD uptick. With that happening, we will not see VLOAs for March.

We have 2 LHRs the majority of March.

FCO, BCN, and MAD start service at the very end of March.

For new IPD destinations, Chicago Inflight should send out a letter with pertinent information on the destination. As always, please check your tablet if this is a new destination.

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Staffing

The RSV percentage for January is 18.2% in ORD vs a system average of 20.0%

Class 25-01 will have a total of 19 Flight Attendants flying in the ORD base for March. They will be considered for the published RSV numbers.

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Sequence Starts per Day

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Trip Construction

• 1-day: 24% in March vs 26% in February
• 2-day: 29% in March was 28% in February
• 3-day: 43% in March was 42% in February
• 4-day: 4% in March was 4% in February
• ODAN Starts per day: 19.3 in March was 20.6 in February

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PBS Preliminary Manning Plan

Safe Travels!

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]