Scheduling – AFA Horizon

Scheduling Notes – September

Posted on July 31, 2019July 31, 2019 by Webmaster

September Bid 325 – Scheduling Notes This month management had a lot of their own parameters they added due to overall staffing. The company put extra credits into PDX and SEA and took some out of MFR, GEG, and BOI. We continue to hear they have staffing issues and this bid was no different. Management also had […]

AFA MEC Announcement – Crew Planning Liaison

Posted on July 11, 2019July 11, 2019 by Webmaster

To: HZN AFA Membership/Flight Attendants Date: July 9, 2019 Subject: HZN AFA MEC Crew Planning Liaison Position Flight Attendant Callie von Borstel informed the MEC that she will be leaving her AFA MEC position of Crew Planning Liaison at the end of July 2019. Callie has been front and center working with the Jeppesen […]

Scheduling Notes – August, Bid 324

Posted on July 3, 2019July 3, 2019 by Webmaster

To download the latest Scheduling notes for Bid 324, please click the link below.

Scheduling – July Pairings

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

July Bid 323 – Scheduling Notes July will be our fourth full month of mixed-pairing flying. With it, there were a total of 1,562 trips between all bases. Of those, 304 are all Q400 flying and 327 are all E175 flying. That’s 59.6% of the trips are mixed, 20.9% trips are pure E175, and 19.5% are pure […]

Scheduling – June Pairings

Posted on June 1, 2019June 1, 2019 by Webmaster

Back in April inflight management implemented mixed pairings to help drive better efficiencies, as they understood them. Since then, Kieran Whitney, our former Managing Director of Inflight, has moved back over to Alaska. The downside of this is that Kieran was the only member of inflight management who we feel understood the inner workings of […]

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 […]

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 […]

SAP – Restricted Access

Posted on March 13, 2019March 13, 2019 by Webmaster

Horizon Air MEC has been in contact with management regarding the restricted access to SAP this evening. We are posting the language from the Settlement below. Management will keep us apprised of any updates and we will forward to you as we receive them. We expect that Kieran and Dee Dee will also keep you […]

PBS Committee – Alternate Position and Upcoming Leave of Absence

Posted on February 13, 2019 by Webmaster

Greetings Flight Attendants! Back in October, we announced an opening for an alternate position for the PBS Committee. The alternate committee member’s duties are to fill in while one of the primary members is on leave or vacation, to maintain adequate AFA representation when dealing with the company. When actively serving, the alternate member will […]

Joint PBS Committee Alternate Position

Posted on November 10, 2018November 10, 2018 by Webmaster

After a review of the applications, the AFA MEC has selected Deb Harding-Elliott as the Joint PBS Committee alternate member. Deb will begin her training in January and is expected to be available to assist, when needed, starting in February of 2019. About the Joint PBS Committee: • Assists bidders with building and editing their bids […]