This is what Jane Allen wrote in her hotline which was emailed on April 29, 2003:
Flight attendants who transfer to STL will need to undergo an FAA-approved training program to allow them to work on TWA aircraft. While we have aligned TWA LLC policies and procedures with AA’s to the extent possible, there are still material differences on which flight attendants must be trained, in addition to basic indoctrination hours required by the FAA. The training program is 8 days in length, one day of which is a duty-free period. Training will be conducted at FlagShip University in DFW and will start as early as the week of May 19, with several classes starting each week. Flight attendants attending training in May will be paid on a trips-missed basis for May and will paper bid for the contractual month of June. They will resume active flying in STL during the contractual month of July. Training classes will be assigned in seniority order.
A careful reading reveals that once the nAAtives are trained to staff TWA LLC planes, they will not be permitted to work on equipment flying under the AA operating certificate. Why else would they be paid on a trip missed basis for May and paper bid for the contractual month of July?
For those of you who are not familiar with the terminology, the flight attendants who are transferring to STL will be paid not to work for the balance of May and the full month of June. Perhaps this is why the union was so eager to do away with furlough pay.