From July 18^th—20^th, National Group Protection (NGP) will be in the crew lounge in Anchorage to communicate the AFA supplemental benefit plans.  Please look for the NGP benefit counselors during the on-site enrollment to enroll or make changes to your existing coverage.  Note that you can enroll in any of the crew lounges, not just your base location.

• Accident Insurance
• Critical Illness Coverage
• Whole Life Insurance

There are some benefit enhancements/upgrades this year, so please take the time to sit down with a benefit counselor and review your options.  This is also an excellent time to make sure you have filed for your annual health screening benefits, which are part of the accident and critical illness benefit plans.

• Supplemental – these plans supplement any existing coverage
• Voluntary – members choose to participate
• Limited Underwriting – no medical or physical exams required
• Family Coverage – available with all of the plans
• Portable – members can continue coverage if they leave the company
• Payroll Deduction – premiums are paid through payroll deduction

If you have any questions regarding the upcoming enrollment, please contact National Group Protection (NGP) at 800-344-9016.

We have created an excel spreadsheet to review all the pairings that have been created and awarded in the ANC base.  We are excited to share that spreadsheet with all of you.  

Click the following link to view the July Pairings Spreadsheet:    July 16 Bid.xlsx

 The spreadsheet contains:

• Pairings (Pairing Numbers)
• Days (Length of Pairing) 
• C/I (Check In Times)
• C/O (Check-Out Times)
• TAFB (Time Away From Base) which is listed as hours and minutes
• ADC (Average Daily Credit)
• Pay TFP (Total TFP you will be paid if trip is flown.  Inclusive of MPRs)
• Sit TFP (Indicates how much tfp of Sit Pay is in the pairing)
• TAFB/TFP (Time Away From Base per TFP value)
• Duty Legs
• D/H (DH legs)
• L/O (Layover Location)
• Compensation (inclusive of sit pay and per diem) and you can change the TFP Rate (located in the upper right corner of the spreadsheet) to reflect your step rate amount which will adjust the compensation column to reflect the accurate amount each individual FA will receive at their rate of pay.
• Days (the days of the month that pairing operates)

We hope you find this information helpful and would appreciate your feedback.  If you find value in the document, we will do our best to provide it for you each month. If you have any questions about the spreadsheet, please contact us at anc@afaalaska.org.

From Ruthann:

Here is a small summary of what was discussed at the AS ANC Monthly
Employee Safety Meeting that takes place the third Wednesday of each
month.  Attendees include representatives from your AFA Air Safety
Health and Security committee, the Ramp, CSAs, Stores, Catering,
Management, etc.  This allows all the work groups to bring forth
agenda items that need to be solved with the help of other work
groups.  Below are some of the items discussed in May that will be on
the agenda for June.  If you have any safety concerns please report
them to Ruthann.Bledsoe@gmail.com or any of the other safety committee
members which include Betsy DeMay, Sarah Roberts, or Debi Wallstrom.

These are ongoing items that are on the agenda for the June 15th meeting.
1. ATB (air turn back) due to 2 juice caps in the R2 door frame on a
ANC-SEA flight.  Catering was advised and signed off for each worker to
check the door frame for internal debris before shutting the door.
2.  CSA reminder that a Cabin Baggage Tag must be attached to each FAA
approved carseat brought onto the aircraft for use in the cabin.
3. CSA reminder that service animals must be on the final flight report to
have the notice appear on the F/A iPhone to avoid flight delays.
4.  Our F/As are having a problem with the combi stairs improperly
positioned by SEA CSAs at the L2 door.  If this occurs please write an
incident report, an  ASAP, and send pictures to
Ruthann.Bledsoe@gmail.com.  ANC CSAs are positioning the L2 combi
stairs correctly.