flight attendants accept, but what are the terms?

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under fly pretty much eliminated! Read on:
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American Airlines'' flight attendants this morning approved an enhanced package of concessions, allowing the company to avoid an immediate filing for bankruptcy reorganization.

The company agreed to change a key provision of the agreement that had disturbed flight attendants from the outset. Flight attendants currently are paid based on the scheduled flight time, regardless of whether the flight arrives early. But under the previous concessions, the flight attendants would have lost that extra pay, while the pilots'' deal allows them to retain theirs.

Now, like the pilots, flight attendants will maintain a form of the current arrangement.

''''It was a major concern for flight attendant and we addressed it,'''' said Rick Musica, Miami base vice chairman of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants.

The union was the only holdout of the three labor groups for approval of a set of revised, shortened concessions. The flight attendants approved the package during a conference call that began at 9 a.m.

''''We can''t lose sight of the fact that this is still a company in a serious financial crisis,'''' Musica said. ``And what the APFA has done today is just another step in helping this company recover.''''

The settlement follows a series of dramatic developments at American.

On Thursday, the board of directors of American parent AMR Corp. accepted the resignation of Chairman Don Carty, who acknowledged that he was getting in the way of an agreement with the unions.

The board named company President Gerard Arpey, 44, as chief executive and Edward Brennan, the 69-year-old former chairman of Sears, as AMR chairman.

Carty''s failure to disclose details of executive compensation plans to union members as they voted on deep concessions had created a lighting rod that outraged employees and threatened to scuttle unions'' cost-cutting deals.

The transport workers and flight attendants earlier had said they planned to hold new votes that could take up to a month to complete. American had said that such a delay could lead to a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.

Nevertheless, American remains in a difficult financial environment.
 
Amendable by april 2008 and openers can begin as early as 4/2006 up to 10% pay bonus dependent on performance, Haven''t heard anything about the underfly drop. Although I have heard a couple of FA''s requesting Captains to fly slow.
 
APFA
Special Board of Directors Teleconference
April 25, 2003
Resolution #1
Page Two
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors has continuously believed that all
steps should be taken
to help avoid a bankruptcy filing, consistent with the best interests
of the APFA-represented
flight attendants; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors determined that, in light of the
totality of the Company''s
conduct, including the Company''s withholding of information, until
after completion of the
ratification balloting process, regarding the provision of special
bankruptcy-protected
supplemental retirement benefits for 45 Company Officers and special
Executive Retention
Awards for 7 Company officials, that the interests of the APFA-
represented flight attendants
would be furthered by conducting a new ratification vote among the
APFA membership, and,
on April 22, adopted Resolution #2 providing for such a further
ratification vote; and
WHEREAS, the Company indicated that it could not await the outcome of
an APFA
ratification ballot and would file for bankruptcy imminently in light
of APFA''s announced
reballoting; and
WHEREAS, in response to that announced course of APFA action, the
Company entered
into further discussions with APFA and, as a result, has agreed to
significant improvements
to the APFA Restructuring Agreement which it was not willing to
provide previously and has
further agreed to refrain from filing a bankruptcy petition at this
time if it receives APFA''s
agreement at this time, and without a further ratification balloting
vote, to the APFA
Restructuring Agreement as modified by the addition of the
significant improvements to
which the Company has now agreed; and
WHEREAS, APFA, in addition to securing Company agreement to provide
these significant
enhancements, has vigorously attempted to obtain Company agreement to
drop its insistence
on finalization of agreement on the improvements to the APFA
Restructuring Agreement
without a further ratification balloting, but the Company has refused
to modify its position on
reballoting; and
WHEREAS, following persistent expressions of outrage by APFA and
others regarding the
company intentional withholding of information on the special
retirement benefits and
retention awards for officers of the company, CEO Don Carty resigned
in the evening of
April 24, 2003; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors continues to believe that, in the
event of a bankruptcy
filing by the Company, there is a strong likelihood that the APFA-
represented flight
attendants will suffer a reduction in wages and working conditions,
and additional resulting
furloughs of flight attendants, which exceed those that will result
under the APFA
Restructuring Agreement; andAPFA
Special Board of Directors Teleconference
April 25, 2003
Resolution #1
Page Three
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors, under the current circumstances
presented, has
determined that the best interests of the APFA-represented flight
attendants will be served by
securing the significant improvements to the APFA Restructuring
Agreement to which the
Company has agreed since the Board of Directors adopted Resolution #2
on April 22 and by
forestalling a Company bankruptcy filing, without a further
membership vote, rather than
proceeding with a further membership vote which will eliminate
Company agreement to
provide the significant improvements to the APFA Restructuring
Agreement and result in an
imminent bankruptcy filing by the Company.
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Directors agrees to the
significant
enhancements to the APFA Restructuring Agreement to which the Company
has agreed since
adoption by the Board of Directors of Resolution #2 on April 22 with
great reluctance and
under the circumstances presented, withdraws the direction to the
National Balloting
Committee to proceed to arrange for another ratification vote.
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the APFA Board of Directors hereby
authorizes
the APFA President to sign the April 25, 2003 letter of agreement
between AA and APFA.

The vote was 13-5, with DCA, LAX, IOR, SFO, and STL voting no.
Kirsten Smith - BOS
 
That''s the way I understand it. Each union can change one "item;" in our case, it looks like underfly is the biggest sticking point for most people. It makes sense when you figure only the junior 4 or 5 thousand are thinking of the furlough pay. If we change this item, something else of equal value will have to be substituted. What will it be?

The pilots announced that as of right now, they won''t elect to change anything.

MK
 
Isn''t this the same things that all the other unions agreed to yesterday. The spin looks like ALPA got something special for their members, but in reality they got the same deal as everyone else. The underfly thing that the membership was so upset about was taken as a concession by the union as part of the money needed to make up their contributions. The didn''t have to take it, the pilots didn''t. Now they are going to trade it for something else and want to make it seem like a victory.
 
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On 4/25/2003 8:30:19 PM kirkpatrick wrote:

Each union can change one "item;" in our case, it looks like underfly is the biggest sticking point for most people.

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It is going to be very interesting. The new pilots'' contract contains incentives to reduce flight times.
 
It is going to be very interesting.  The new pilots'' contract contains incentives to reduce flight times.

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It does? I missed that part. What sort of incentives?

Chris
 

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