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- Scheduling Committee Meeting Recap – February 2022
- Inflight Service Committee Meeting Recap – 1st Quarter 2022
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Scheduling Committee Meeting Recap – February 2022
Originally posted February 24, 2022
Our AFA Scheduling Committee Chairpersons met on Tuesday, February 22 to discuss their ongoing program of work to represent Flight Attendants interests related to lineholder scheduling. The Committee also met with management to receive updates and discuss issues and problems that Flight Attendants are experiencing with scheduling, pairings, and bidding. Your Local Scheduling Committee is available to answer questions, provide clarification, or help to resolve any lineholder scheduling-related issues. Please don’t hesitate to reach out!
Inflight Service Committee Meeting Recap – 1st Quarter 2022
Originally posted February 25, 2022
Our AFA Inflight Service Committee Chairpersons met on Wednesday, February 23 to discuss their ongoing program of work to represent Flight Attendants interests related to catering and onboard service/sales. The Committee also met with management to receive updates and discuss issues and problems that Flight Attendants are facing onboard the aircraft. Management continues to experience challenges in some locations that are affecting the correct loading on onboard catering supplies and retail products. Please continue to report catering issues through Block2Block and safety-related issues through ReportIt!
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Federal Mask Mandate
The current federal mandate requiring face masks to be worn in airports and onboard commercial aircraft is scheduled to be in place through March 18, 2022. Although a recent statement from AFA indicates that there is reason to believe that the mask mandate will be extended for the near term, this should not be construed as AFA having taken a position one way or another on the issue. We have heard from Flight Attendants who would like to see the mandate end and others who would like to see it extended, but as of this point there has been no official word about whether the mandate will expire as scheduled or be extended further. Our focus remains on ensuring that Flight Attendants receive support for doing our job in enforcing the current mandate and that violent passengers are kept off of our aircraft.
Correction
Information about MEC Mobilization Committee Chairperson Interviews, originally published on January 28, 2022, inadvertently contained an omission in the qualifications section. The posting has been updated and now reflects accurately. We apologize for the oversight.
