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 Code of Federal Regulations (CFRs) and other guiding documents to Flight Attendant recurrent training. More specifically, the MEC is seeking more information about what drove the changes that were made to Recurrent Training 2020 when it initially launched in January.
Unfortunately, not all of the required representatives from the FAA’s Certificate Management Office (CMO) could be available for the scheduled meeting last Wednesday and the meeting was canceled. The MEC is actively working with the FAA to reschedule the meeting to another time as soon as all required attendees from both AFA and the FAA are available. More information will be communicated once the meeting is able to be rescheduled.
In Solidarity,
Your MEC – Jeffrey Peterson, Brian Palmer, Linda Christou, Matt Cook, Terry Taylor, Mario de’Medici, Melissa Osborne, Tim Green and Brice McGee
Jackie Radford says
I spoke with someone last week who said they were going to check with the union lawyers to see if it was even legal for 100% of the people to get 100% on our drills. I haven’t heard back. We’ve actually heard nothing about union lawyers being involved. Could someone talk about this issue publicly please.
Brian Palmer (MEC Vice President) says
AFA legal has advised that it is within management’s rights to evaluate to the standard that they put forth. That said, the company must comply with all federal regulations and receive FAA approval for their training program. The FAA has approved the company’s current standard which is to conduct proficiency checks in a manner where F/As must achieve 100% to be deemed successful with very limited exceptions.