Local Executive Council 16 – AFA Horizon Air

AS/QX Labor Coalition

Posted on December 30, 2019December 30, 2019 by Webmaster

On Monday, December 16th, 2019, the Labor Coalition, composed of elected leaders of each unionized employee group at Alaska Airlines as well as AFA and IBT at Horizon Air, met at the ALPA MEC office. Each workgroup provided an update on their current challenges with the Company. The Coalition also discussed common concerns surrounding issues […]

PAE Parking – UPDATE

Posted on October 15, 2019October 15, 2019 by Webmaster

PAE Parking – UPDATE Over the last few months, management has been actively looking at moving our parking area in PAE from the on-site parking lot to an off-site location. Recently, they tried to move our flight crew to a parking lot that was unpaved, dimly lit, poorly fenced and unmanned after business hours with […]

PAE Scheduling Survey

Posted on July 26, 2019July 26, 2019 by Webmaster

Hello SEA, BOI & GEG Flight Attendants- Your LEC 16 AFA leadership team has created a survey for informational purposes only, with the intent to gather feedback from you about scheduling. We have also included questions regarding PAE as a co-domicile. (We are aware our BOI, GEG & remaining ANC FA’s are not directly impacted by PAE […]

LEC 16 Officers – Introduction

Posted on July 15, 2019July 15, 2019 by Webmaster

From left – Jennifer Levcun, Joelle Jaeger, and Heather Coleman Hello fellow LEC 16 members, July 1st marked the official first day of a three-year term as your newly elected Officers for AFA-CWA Local Executive Council 16 (LEC) which represents BOI, SEA, GEG and PAE. Firstly, thank you to our previous LEC 16 officers, Heather […]

Scheduling Committee – Update

Posted on May 14, 2019May 14, 2019 by Webmaster

June Bid 322 Scheduling Notes June will be our third full month of mixed-pairing flying. With it, there were a total of 1,437 trips between all our bases. Of those, 327 are Q400 flying and 252 are E175 flying. That’s about 59.7% mixed, 17.5% E175, and 22.8% Q400. Break down by base for the June […]

Local 16 Election Results

Posted on May 10, 2019May 10, 2019 by Webmaster

Council 16 (SEA/GEG/BOI) Election Results MAY 06, 2019 12:30 BY LISA DAVIS-WARREN (MEC ACTING PRESIDENT) The following AFA Flight Attendants were elected to Local Council Officer positions representing the Flight Attendants based in Seattle, Spokane and Boise: LEC President: Joelle Jaeger (Fuhrman) LEC Vice President: Jennifer Levcun LEC Secretary: Heather Coleman These officers will serve a term […]

MEC Meeting – April

Posted on May 4, 2019May 4, 2019 by Webmaster

AFA MEC President and Acting President were able to meet with Brooke Vatheuer, SVP Operations and Planning, for the first time since she has been in her new position. This will be a quarterly meeting and we will communicate what issues were discussed and/or resolved at each meeting. Given today was the first meeting we […]

New PAE Parking – UPDATED

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Webmaster

AFA has been discussing the amenities of the PAE operation with Kieran Whitney for several weeks and the parking lot is one of those amenities. Additionally, parking at a base is covered in our contract language, Article 4.C. Parking. Heather Coleman, LEC 16 President, recently drove to PAE to view the proposed parking lot and […]

Mixed Pairings – Update

Posted on March 23, 2019March 23, 2019 by Webmaster

Dear Horizon AFA Flight Attendants, AFA is very concerned with the mixed pairings that are scheduled to take place commencing with the April bid.  When we first heard the idea from inflight management about ten months ago, we expressed numerous concerns that we had. These included safety, operational, quality of life, credit values and the ability to preference individual aircraft. We also cited contractual language that we believe the potential mixed […]

PAE Communication From Heather Coleman

Posted on March 19, 2019June 10, 2019 by Webmaster

As your Local Executive Council 16 President I have been in discussions with Management, specifically Kieran Whitney, Managing Director, Inflight and Dee Dee Caldwell, Director since August of last year. The information management had regularly provided was confirmation that we would begin with overnights in PAE, that the flying would operate this way for several […]