7.03.25 – APFA PHX Base Brief – August 2025 Staffing and Allocations

August 2025 PHX Staffing and Allocations

Thursday, July 3, 2025

Today, APFA Base Representatives had the monthly staffing and allocations call with the Company. Robin Agee, Secorra Flowers, and Scott Barnes represented the PHX base on this call. Here are the details for the August bid month.

PHX Base Statistics for August 2025:

• One (1) Month On/ Three (3) Months off Reserve Rotation: 1181
• One (1) Month On/ One (1) Month off Reserve Rotation: 201
• Straight Reserve (One (1) Year): 0
• Straight Reserve (Two (2) Years): 50

Important Dates

• August Bid Month: August 1 – August 30
• Schedule Change: August 6
• Labor Day: Monday, September 1

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August 2025 System Reserve Seniority

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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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Join us in the Crew Room on Monday, July 14th from 10 AM to 3 PM, for a PBS Bidding Refresher. Secorra and Base Council Representatives will be available to review your PBS bid and provide assistance with bidding basics, tips, and tricks. We hope to see you there!

Thursday, August 14th from 10 AM to 3 PM

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More Than a Three (3) Hour Delay (After Report)

2024 CBA Section 10.J.8. – “When a flight departure is delayed for more than three (3) hours, the Flight Attendant who is scheduled for such flight shall not be required to stand by and shall be relieved of duty at her/his request, provided that other Flight Attendants are available to replace her/him without increasing the delay. A Flight Attendant desiring to be released shall remain on duty until the relief Flight Attendant reports for duty. A Flight Attendant exercising this option shall forfeit any pay and credit that may be accumulated under any other Paragraph in Section 10.”

This provision applies at sequence origination only, not mid-sequence. You are not entitled to Call Out pay or pay protection, but you will receive the Duty Rig from report to release. Section 11.D.5. states, “A Flight Attendant shall receive a minimum of one (1) hour of pay and credit for every two (2) hours of actual on-duty time prorated on a minute-by-minute basis of actual on-duty time.”

Example: You are delayed for more than three hours and request to be removed from your sequence. You reported at 1000 and are relieved and released at 1400. Your four hours on duty would generate two hours of pay. Once released, contact Crew Scheduling to ensure your release time is added so pay for the duty day can be added. If the pay is not generated by closeout, submit a Direct Connect.

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Aggressive Reserve Hours and Calling Out of Time (COT) 

CBA 12.K.4.b enhances how aggressive hours are viewed for Reserves when calculating RSVCOT (Reserve Calling Out of Time).

Once a Reserve reaches forty (40) hours awarded on Aggressive Reserve status in a month, any additional hours awarded on Aggressive Reserve status above the forty (40) hours shall not be credited when determining if the Reserve has met or exceeded the monthly pay cap.

What are aggressive hours?

When you are on a RAP and bid for a sequence, this is known as an aggressive bid. An award from this aggressive bid would be an aggressive award (aggressive hours). Future awards (ROTA) and future or daily assignments are not aggressive hours.

To contact the Contract Implementation Committee (CIC) with any questions regarding all things CBA Implementation, please use the CIC Membership Contact Form.

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Direct Conflict (DC) vs. FAR Illegal (FI) Pay Protection

1. A Direct Conflict occurs on your schedule whenever the trip you are currently flying is delayed into a day or duty period with other flying already on it. There must be an overlap between the time you are released from the first sequence and the time you report for your second sequence.

Example: You report for a 1-day trip on June 11th at 1600. The trip is scheduled to end on June 11th with a release time of 2326. You have another 1-day trip on June 12th with a report time of 1300. Your first trip has a mechanical delay and is rescheduled to arrive on June 12th at 1500 – causing you to have a conflict with the report time of the second trip. Since the trips overlap, this is considered a DIRECT CONFLICT – and the second trip will be removed with a DC code on your HI-1.

2. A FAR Illegality on your schedule occurs whenever you are scheduled to fly two sequences back-to-back, and the first sequence is delayed arriving back into base giving you less than the FAR required rest between the two sequences, without any overlap.

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Arizona Earned Paid Sick Time

PHX-based Flight Attendants can utilize up to forty (40) hours of paid sick leave annually to cover absences due to personal medical conditions, care for eligible family members, or other qualifying reasons outlined in the Arizona Earned Paid Sick Time Policy.

Every January 1, the Company will provide eligible Flight Attendants with 40 hours of AZ Paid Sick leave for each calendar year, which runs from January 1 to December 31. AZ Paid Sick is not an additional bank of hours. Any sick leave you take will be deducted from your existing sick bank.

If on January 1 you have 40 or more hours in your sick bank, that amount will count as your allotment of Arizona Earned Paid Sick Time for that calendar year. If you have fewer than 40 hours in your sick bank on January 1, the Company will credit your sick leave bank to ensure that you have a total of 40 hours available for that year. This total will also be considered your allotment of Arizona Earned Paid Sick Time. Should the Company credit your sick bank with additional hours on January 1, you will be required to “pay back” the credited hours as you accrue paid sick leave under any applicable Company policy or agreement.

For example, if you have 10 hours in your Company paid sick bank on January 1, the Company will add an additional 30 hours to your sick bank, giving you a total of 40 hours. If you accrue 4.5 sick hours in January, then on February 1, you will still have a total of 40 hours available for AZ Paid Sick (not 44.5 hours), assuming you did not take any sick leave in January. Additional hours of paid sick leave will not be added to your sick bank until you have first accrued an amount equal to the hours the Company credited on January 1.

***If your sick call qualifies for conversion to AZ Sick, it will automatically be recoded from SK to MS, and your negative point will be removed.***

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Mandatory Meeting Representation

If the Crew Attendance Manager or your Crew Manager schedules a mandatory meeting, please set up the meeting and call 800-595-1471, ext. 4, for APFA PHX Representation. Please leave your name, employee number, phone number, and the date and time of the meeting. We request a notification at least 48 hours before the meeting to schedule a representative.

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APFA PHX 
800-595-1471

• Ext. 1 – APFA Headquarters
• Ext. 2 – PHX Base President Robin Agee
• Ext. 3 – PHX Base Vice President Secorra Flowers
• Ext. 4 – Mandatory Meeting Representation
• Ext. 6 – Reserve
• Ext. 0 – General Questions

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Please reach out to us with any questions or concerns.

In Solidarity,

Robin Agee
APFA PHX Base President
480-238-2303
[email protected]

Secorra Flowers
APFA PHX Base Vice President
602-551-8116
[email protected]