Horizon to postpone 2-E 175 deliveries due to tariffs and subsequent schedule draw down

May 10th, 2025

 You have most likely seen the email from Jason Berry, the President of Horizon Air, stating that we will draw down our schedule from May 15th through the end of June. Crew Scheduling has made the applicable changes through May 19th and is working to make further changes to our schedule through the end of June.

While we do not expect to see any significant interruption to our schedules given the work Network Planning and Crew Scheduling are doing behind the scenes, we do want to review some information with you. AFA reached an agreement with management to protect our ability to trade, pick up, and/or drop our pairings (trips) while impacted pairings are being reworked. Some of you may be familiar with seeing red legs in your pairings, while others have not. We have included below the communication on the Settlement Agreement sent out after mediation. 

If the work being done to adjust our schedule becomes more complicated along the way, the additional pay referenced in this Agreement may apply. If you have red legs on your line in May and cannot pick up, drop, and/or trade any pairing/s, you are entitled to additional pay as referenced in this Agreement. After the 16th of this month, if any pairing in June has a red leg on it and you cannot pick up, drop and/or trade that pairing, you are entitled to this additional pay. Please review the attached Agreement, which details the steps to take to ensure you are paid this extra credit

 You will see a mention in the Agreement to complete a "form". AFA has been unable to locate the form you must complete to ensure you receive this Red Leg credit. We have asked management to confirm where this form is currently located and hope to have this information soon. In the meantime, please screenshot the pairing/s, attempt your transaction in eCrew and screenshot any denial messages you receive. Once the form is available, complete the form with the required information.

Monitor your pay and report immediately if you do not receive the full pairing credit for your impacted pairing, as published. You can also report any issues on our website using the "Scheduling Concern" designation in the Support Ticket system.

Of note, AFA does not consider this current reduction a "substantial reduction" as referenced in the Agreement. AFA believes the reduction will be less than 10% of our daily flying. As such, the language in Paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Settlement Agreement will not apply. To further support this stance, management has not contacted us per the language in Paragraph 3 of the Agreement. 

Reach out to your Local Officers with any questions regarding this Agreement.

Previously published on May 7th, 2024.

Red Legs Settlement

Your MEC and Grievance Committee reached a settlement regarding the handling of “red legs” in our trips. Red legs occur when a flight is canceled from a trip. They are called red legs because they appear in a red font on the trip key. The red leg notifies Crew Scheduling that changes need to be made to a trip to eliminate the canceled leg. This can happen for several reasons, such as marketing changes, COVID, crew shortages, or weather. It can happen to a few people, or it might affect all of us.

We all understand that flight cancellations are a fact of life in our industry. The problem for Flight Attendants is that eCrew will not allow us to pick up, drop or trade trips that contain red legs. AFA believes that there is no contractual provision preventing such trades. The Flight Attendant accepting the trade knows that the trip may change. However, the program cannot accomplish this, so we reached a settlement intended as a workaround.

The settlement has three main components:

Red legs in trips before trading opens: Red legs will appear on the final bid award, but Crew Scheduling will remove them and “fix” the trip before trading opens. This applies to both the current month and the upcoming month. For example, on June 16, Crew Scheduling can fix red legs in June or July, except for trips that carry out into August. When trading opens, all red legs should be fixed except for those carry-out trips.

Red legs may occur at any time during the month. After the 16th of the month, if a Flight Attendant wants to pick up, drop, trade, or give away a trip with a red leg, they must attempt the trade in eCrew. If it does not work, they may submit a “Red Leg Trade Form” within 24 hours. If the Company validates that the trade was denied because of a red leg, the Flight Attendant will receive two (2) credits. You will receive this payment only once per trip in each 24 hours. If the trip is not fixed, you may repeat the process 24 or more hours after your original denial, submit a new form, and receive an additional two (2) credits if the denial is validated. Of course, if you have multiple red leg trips on your line, you may attempt to trade each one every 24 hours and be paid accordingly.

Paragraph 2 does not apply if the red legs are created after the 16th of the month if the reason for them is beyond the Company’s control and has a material and substantial impact on the Company’s flight operations or causes a substantial reduction or cancellation of service. Examples include pandemics, acts of war, or the grounding of the fleet.

Of course, in an ideal world scheduling software would handle these trades, but the company has been unwilling to purchase additional software programs that would make this possible. This settlement aims to incentivize Crew Scheduling to fix red legs before they are noticed on our lines while compensating Flight Attendants for the loss of trading flexibility when that doesn’t happen.

Red Leg Settlement