12.05.25 – APFA BOS Base Brief – January 2026 Staffing and Allocations

January 2026 BOS Staffing and Allocations

Friday, December 5, 2025

Hello, Boston!

The monthly staffing and allocations call for January 2026 took place on the 3rd and here are the highlights.

Total headcount for the BOS domicile remains steady at 825 (including inactive FA’s.) Total active headcount is 794. We are not receiving any new-hires for January. With that in mind, our projected reserve numbers are not expected to change.

January begins a slight wind-down after the holiday season operation.

Our flying hours for January are down slightly at 47,239, a minor decrease from the DEC month. This number is an 11% YOY increase from January of 2025. Our reserve percentage dips to 15.9% to account for the continued holiday period (Jan 1) and winter operations. We are expecting 126 flight attendants to serve reserve in the January bid month. That is a dip of 10 from the December ’25 bid month. That number is eight more than the prior year but is expected with the higher headcount.

VLOA

We are expecting VLOA offered in January to at least six BOS flight attendants.

Our LAX transcon flights increase service to four daily for the majority of January. We have requested, and allocations has agreed, to have Boston staff three of these flights. We continue the usual morning two-day and red-eye three-day operation, plus a “reverse rocket” where we staff an evening flight to LAX and operate a morning flight back after minimum rest.

• LHR will operate the same sequence daily for the entire month.
• The PHX rocket will operate 11 times throughout the month.
• There are no ODANs in the bid packet.
• I saw no charter sequences in the bid packet.

There is one wide-body domestic trip however, please note this is a regular domestic trip, not a charter or ferry sequence.MCO & CUN turns operate for the first five days of the month. Afterwards, the MCO flights are built into the start or end of sequences for the rest of the month. There are continued island turns for a few Saturdays of the month to PLS and CUN, along with a single TPA and PBI turn the first Saturday of January. PUJ flights continue to be built into the start and end of multi-day sequences when operating.

The sequence construction breakdown is as follows:

We finally see relief in our 3-day sequence percentages for January. While the number remains slightly higher than we’d like, that number is far more manageable for the base. Three-day trips remain high system-wide across the bases.

Inflight Quarterly Training 4Q2025

• Operational Reliability – 4Q25
• Preventing Sexual Harassment
• Basic Data Cybersecurity Awareness
• Security Management System (SeMS)
• oneworld alliance

This quarterly training must be completed by Monday, December 8 at 23:59 (CT) to avoid a Missed Assignment (MA).

As always, fly safe!

In Solidarity,

Luke Williams
APFA BOS Base President
(617) 362-0052
[email protected]

Kea Serikaku
APFA BOS Base Vice President
(617) 362-0052
[email protected]

Ben Samoylich
APFA BOS Staffing & Allocations Representative
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