December Bid 328 – Pairing Construction Notes AFA had an extremely difficult build this month. The software that we use to build the trips (Jeppesen) did not want to build three or four-day trips in MFR. It also did not want to build one or two-day trips in SEA. We presented a solution that would solve for some of this but it […]

FAIF: Pairings File Error and Protest Period Extension for October bid Attention all Flight Attendants: Yesterday, we received two protests from flight attendants regarding a few pairings that showed they had carry-out credit even though they did not carry out of the bid. One of those FAs was incorrectly denied pairings due to the error. […]

October Bid 326 – Scheduling Notes We will start with the disappointing news. The pairing solution for October was not our first choice.  Our preferred solution had a maximum of four working legs. If a fifth leg was included, it had to be a DH. This solution was $16,000 more than the solution the company […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]