3.21.25 – Contract Implementation Update #18: Boarding Pay Begins April 1, 2025

Friday, March 21, 2025

Contract Implementation Update #18

Boarding Pay
CBA 3.D

One of our most requested contractual items is finally here—an achievement that wouldn’t have been possible without 28,000 Flight Attendants standing together in solidarity!

Section 3.D of our CBA will be implemented on April 1st, 2025, and Flight Attendants will earn boarding pay for each boarding event. APFA is the first Unionized Flight Attendant group to secure boarding pay in a collective bargaining agreement.

Boarding Pay is for scheduled boarding time only. Remember that boarding times are still contractual (CBA 11.M and 14.F) and boarding earlier than scheduled will not earn additional pay. Also, closing the door earlier than scheduled will not reduce any pay.

Boarding Pay is as follows:

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Calculate Your Monthly Boarding Pay:

When do I Earn Boarding Pay?

Boarding pay is eligible for each boarding event on a flight. If you were to board a flight, deplane, and board again, this would be two boarding pay events and eligible for two instances of boarding pay.

Initially, if you experience a partial boarding that then deplanes, please file a Direct Connect to ensure this is captured and paid. While these instances should be captured by the automated program used by Crew Compensation, we want to make sure you are always paid in these scenarios regardless of how many passengers have boarded. As soon as a passenger steps onboard the aircraft, the Crew is eligible for a boarding pay event.

Boarding Pay Tracking

For April, the company will not have a tool available to track boarding pay. The company has committed to creating a tool providing boarding pay history back to April 1st, 2025. Once the tracking tool is available, you will still be able to file a Direct Connect to dispute any boarding pay discrepancies.

Until this tool is available, we encourage Flight Attendants to utilize the Boarding Calculator available on APFA.org to track their expected boarding pay and validate the amount when the May 15th pay stub is made available. If there are any discrepancies, please file a Direct Connect. There will be more information in the next few weeks on how boarding pay will show on your pay stub. May 15th will be the first paycheck containing April boarding pay.

Boarding Times on Domestic Flights Change on May 1, 2025As a reminder, boarding times on domestic flights will change on May 1st, 2025. More information on domestic boarding time changes may be found here.

Boarding Pay Scenarios

Below are examples of boarding pay events and how they are paid for the April calendar month.

click below to enlarge scenarios 1-5

click below to enlarge scenarios 6a-10

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Contact the CIC

To contact us with any questions regarding all things CBA Implementation, please use our contact form located on APFA.org > CBA Implementation > Contact the CIC and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

In Unity,

Kelly J. Hagan
LGA

Hunter Meredith
PHL

Wendy Oswald
LAX

Mike Sosa
DFW