Letters of Agreement (LOAs)

What is a letter of agreement?

The AFA constitution & bylaws grants the Master Executive Council (MEC) the authority to enter into letters of agreement (LOAs) with management to supplement contractual language and provide additional guidance surrounding matters that were either not foreseen or could not be anticipated during contract negations. LOAs have the full force of contractual language.

Currently Effective Letters of Agreement
Listed in chronological order

§11.H.3 Lineholder Can Split Block of Picked Up Reserve Days (12/07/2016)Download

Flight Attendant Check-In App and Elimination of Scanners (01/25/2017)Download

Zika (03/23/2017)Download

§26.A Membership Condition of Employment (04/05/2017)Download

Adjusted Trip Trading Dates (05/25/2017)Download

Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP) Additional Provisions (10/03/2017)Download

Low Bid Option (12/19/2017)Download

Trading Recurrent Training to Early or Grace Months (02/08/2018)Download

Airbus Transition Training (02/18/2018)Download

Block In After Midnight and Surface Deadhead (05/10/2018)Download

Reserve Monthly Maximum (05/10/2018)Download

PBS and JCBA Training (05/22/2018)Download

Flight Path 2 (08/17/2018)Download

Excessive Time Clearing Customs at LAX–Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) (08/23/2018)Download

Transition Training Make Up Process (11/15/2018)Download

Uniform Allotments and Rollover 2019-2020 (01/03/2019)Download

Custom Uniform 2020 (10/10/2019)Download

Moving Vacation Days While on LOA and PPP Eligibility (11/20/2019)Download

PBS Bidding Credit for 2020 RT (11/25/2019)Download

AFA Update – February 21, 2020

February 21, 2020 By Brian Palmer (MEC Vice President) Leave a Comment

In This Edition REMINDER: Negotiating Committee Interviews AFA Dues FAQs Department of Transportation Warning About CBD Products REMINDER: Negotiating Committee Interviews Master Executive Council (MEC) Our current Joint Collective Bargaining Agreement (JCBA) becomes amendable on December 17, 2021 but also contains an early opener clause for the negotiating process to begin as early as December […]

Recurrent Training 2020 – Part 7

February 14, 2020 By Brian Palmer (MEC Vice President)

The Master Executive Council (MEC) was planning to meet with one of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Cabin Safety Inspectors assigned to Alaska Airlines this week during the regular February MEC meeting. The intent of the meeting was to allow the MEC to gain a better understanding as to how the FAA interprets and applies the […]

Update on Open Time Back to Book

February 11, 2020 By Brian Palmer (MEC Vice President)

Contractual Modification Approved by Roll Call Vote By majority roll call vote, the Master Executive Council (MEC) has approved a contractual modification that will maintain the current open time trading rules inclusive of Section 12 Exchange of Sequences. This modification will remove the requirement to program back to book trading rules and the application of Section […]

Recurrent Training 2020 – Part 6

February 10, 2020 By Jeffrey Peterson (MEC President)

Breaking news! Limited self-correction during door evacuation drills The Master Executive Council (MEC) has been informed that limited self-correction is now allowed during door evacuation drills in one specific circumstance. Flight Attendants are expected to come to Recurrent Training (RT) prepared to demonstrate proficiency by using verbatim evacuation commands. However, if the (incorrect) command “STAND […]

Recurrent Training 2020 – Part 5

February 10, 2020 By Jeffrey Peterson (MEC President)

During the two-week pause of Recurrent Training (RT), management has redesigned the program with the assistance of a vendor that was contracted to help facilitate the process changes. Many of those changes were solidified through an alpha test of the redesigned RT 2020 and subsequent beta test over the past week. AFA leadership participated in […]