7.16.26 – APFA MIA Base Brief – Management’s Priorities Are Failing Flight Attendants

Thursday, July 16, 2026

646 days. That’s how many days the company blocked MIA Flight Attendants from flying in the June 2026 contractual month.

Let’s stop pretending this is normal.

During the June contractual month alone, the company blocked and removed MIA Flight Attendants for 646 days to attend management meetings. That’s 646 days of lost flying by Flight Attendants who were ready and willing to do the job they were hired to do.

Call it whatever the company wants—a touchpoint, a coaching session, or an investigation—the outcome is always the same: a Flight Attendant removed from the line so management can hold a meeting.

This isn’t an isolated incident. It is the predictable result of the inflight restructure implemented by Vice President of Inflight Bobbi Wells—a structure that has prioritized micromanagement over meaningful support for Flight Attendants, our passengers, and the operation.

Here’s how these removals and days blocked for meetings impact every Flight Attendant:

• Inflated reserve percentage at every base: Removing reserves from flying inflates reserve utilization, which is one of the factors the company uses when determining reserve percentages for future months.
• 3% open time restriction: Lineholders being removed from flying contributes to open time challenges and impacts how TTS operates under the 3% open time restriction.
• Red Flag needed to cover operation: Lineholders and reserves removed/withheld for meetings on days they could have flown, lose earning opportunities, and force the company to either use additional reserve coverage or pay a premium for red-flagged trips.
• Lineholders rescheduled frequently due to reserves used to cover open time created by lineholders who were removed or withheld for meetings.
• Decreased reserve trading: Reserves removed from their schedules can also affect their ability to trade on days when coverage limitations prevent the system from processing those requests.
• More flight delays: Did your flight have a delay due to an open position or lack of reserves available?

Ask yourself:

• Have you been out of service for an extended period without a single wellness check from management?
• Have you reached out to a manager for an update and simply never heard back?
• Has a manager’s oversight, a missed removal, a missed notification, turned into an attendance problem that was never your fault?
• Have you received a call from a manager asking for information in a way that didn’t match any process you were told to expect?
• Have you been denied a TTS trade or drop because of “O/T exceeded,” while reserve shortages persist elsewhere?
• Have you been forced onto reserve because base reserve percentages climbed?
• Do you believe this base is being managed with genuine support or with distance and discipline?

If the company does not care enough to ask how their excessive meetings are impacting everyone, we will show them how we are all being harmed.

We are all feeling the effects of a management structure that has replaced support with nonstop micromanagement under Vice President of Inflight Bobbi Wells’ leadership. These decisions don’t just affect Flight Attendants—they disrupt our operation, diminish the experience we deliver to our customers, further weaken the company’s finances, and ultimately threaten our job security.

Please stay tuned for more opportunities to make your voice heard and send a clear message to management.

In Solidarity,

Nick, Alba, and Your APFA MIA Base Representatives