Jul 27 2024

A new American Airlines flight attendants contract gives crew immediate 18% – 20.5% raises, starts paying them (at half pay) during boarding during the first time, and adopts Delta’s generous profit-sharing formula. They also get changes to work rules, meal costs on the road and retirement contributions. It was likely the most they could get from an airline that underperforms financially, putting them on equal footing or slightly above the next-best paid flight attendants in the industry. But it doesn’t give them everything they’d hoped for.

Online, flight attendants are griping.

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Jul 26 2024

American Airlines and its flight attendants have a tentative agreement on a new contract, four and a half years after the last one became amendable.

Details of the five year deal are now public. Between immediate pay rate changes and the addition of boarding pay, flight attendants will receive up to 28% raises immediately the month following contract ratification. And they’ll get full retro pay for the time spent without a new contract, which can be over $25,000 per crewmember.

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Jul 19 2024

The Association of Professional Flight Attendants has updated its members, sharing that they’ve reached a tentative agreement with American Airlines. Knowing that they were negotiating this week in Phoenix, not D.C. and without the involvement of federal mediators, it was clear that they were close to a deal and simply had to finish up details.

This allows American to trumpet putting labor unrest and substantial risk behind them heading into their second quarter earnings call on Thursday of next week.

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Jul 09 2024

The American Airlines flight attendants union has changed its tune. They are no longer telling their members that a strike is imminent. In fact, a strike has been the threat that has brought them close to a deal.

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Jun 30 2024

American Airlines and its flight attendants union were summoned to a rare Saturday meeting in Washington, D.C. by the National Mediation Board.

The Mediation Board did not tell the parties that they were being released to ‘self-help’. Instead, the Association of Professional Flight Attendants told its members that negotiations continue.

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Jun 28 2024

The National Mediation Board has called American Airlines and its flight attendants union to D.C. for a meeting this Saturday, after what the union described as “last ditch” negotiations failed just over a week ago.

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Jun 20 2024

The American Airlines flight attendants union has told its members, “We do not believe further negotiations will be scheduled prior to the National Mediation Board determining to release the parties into a thirty-day cooling-off period. All American Airlines Flight Attendants should prepare for an upcoming strike.”

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Jun 14 2024

American Airlines and its flight attendants union were in Washington, D.C. this week for what the Association of Professional Flight Attendants described as ‘last ditch’ talks before a strike. Leaks from the National Mediation Board suggested that if a deal wasn’t reached by early June, flight attendants would be released to strike.

However the week’s negotiations ended, there is no deal – and no declared impasse by the National Mediation Board.

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Jun 13 2024

I’m increasingly worried that American Airlines flight attendants are being led down a bad path for someone else’s agenda.

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