AFA Council 61 • Negotiations

AFA-Piedmont Opening Proposal

November 17, 2025

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This page presents the November 17, 2025 opening proposal. These proposals are not an agreed contract.

Articles 1–32

1. Recognition & Scope
  • Current book
2. Definitions
  • Add definitions for:
    • Credit / pay credit
    • Critical coverage
    • Emergency / Critical incident
    • Domestic Partner
    • Open Time
    • Pairing
    • Reassignment
    • Remain Over Night (RON)
    • Time Away from Base (TAFB)
    • Temporary Duty (TDY)
  • Add/delete/modify other definitions as required over course of negotiations
3. Compensation
  • Increase pay rates
  • Rescind LOA 6 Section A (flex pay for years 0-4)
  • Change multi day average from duty period to calendar day
  • Adopt duty rig
  • Increase minimum daily guarantee
  • Increase holiday pay and number of holidays
  • Increase IOE pay
  • Increase longevity pay
  • Nighttime flying premium
  • Boarding pay
  • Sit pay
  • Adopt a Summer Reliability Bonus
  • Retro pay
  • Signing/retention bonus
  • RAS pay
  • Customs pay
  • Automate pay adjustments
4. Sick leave
  • Adopt Pilots’ sick leave policy (no occurrence with provision of doctor’s note)
  • Remove forfeiture of sick leave payout when calling out sick within three (3) months of separation
  • Allow for sick bank to cover fatigue calls, when fatigue call results in an occurrence
  • Codify current practice of convening fatigue board once per month
  • Allow for sick bank to cover legs dropped due to commute failures
  • Improvements to Personal Days (increase number of PRDs, PRDs roll over year-to-year, automate PRD requests, PRD coverage approval subject to RSV coverage)
  • Increase dependent care to four (4) paid days from sick bank.
  • Perfect attendance bonuses processed automatically without FA request
5. Vacation
  • Increase allotment
6. Travel Expenses
  • Increase per diem
  • Improvements to hotel standards
  • Company to establish concierge service to provide rideshare (i.e. when no suitable eating facility near hotel)
  • Codify current practice of reimbursing FAs for using rideshare under the “taxi service” language in 6.B.5.b. and 6.C.1
  • Improvements to hotel site visit procedures (comped stays for AFA members, space positive travel, and Flight Pay Loss)
  • Hotel Committee access to all negotiated contracts with hotels and third-party providers
  • Increase reimbursement for crew meals
  • Improve parking stipend (increase stipend amount, add option to purchase at discounted rate at DOM)
  • Hotel information for day room or unscheduled overnight to be provided to FAs within one (1) hour of FA request, or end of duty period.
7. Scheduling
  • Improve trip construction to reduce sit times
  • Increase scheduled days off
  • Increase premium trip/Critical Coverage pay
  • Allow uneven trip trades
  • Reduce forty-eight (48) hour buffer for OT trade requests
  • OT adjustment requests will not be denied if bid by the 3pm deadline, at least 48 hours in advance. This proposal is offered as a codification of existing right.
  • OT list updated in real time
  • Remove monthly OT approved request limit (7.H.1.l)
  • Remove scheduling approval requirement for trip breaking
  • Allow FAs to book ALT DH / Pilots’ me-too
  • Remove RSV days from lineholders during interface, unless requested by FA
  • Allow trades from one red day to another red day with worse coverage
  • Incorporate LOA 9 (Half Lines)
8. Leaves of Absence
  • Improve bereavement leave (number of days, covered decedents)
  • Increase maximum length of parental leave
  • Extend eligibility for parental leave to FAs who become the legal guardian of a child. This proposal is offered as a codification of existing right.
  • Codify current practice of placing FAs attending flight school on LOA
  • Implement a transitional LOA for FAs who are training at AA
9. Reserve
  • Reduce RSV on-call time
  • Implement fixed Reserve Availability Periods (RAP)
  • Implement long/short call reserve
  • Improve RAS (length of RAS shift, pay for RAS shift, allow reserves to bid for RAS shifts)
  • Reduce length of RAS assignment following a RSV duty period of less than 4.5 hours (9.F.7.d)
  • Company to provide FAs access to a real-time reserve list, containing the information necessary for AFA to determine if reserve assignments have been made correctly
10. Uniforms
  • Increase annual allowance
  • FAs no longer pay for shipping
  • Free replacement of some uniform items at regular intervals
  • Increase maintenance allowance
  • Add Sweater and Tailored Top to Initial Uniform
  • Initial uniform provided at no cost to FA
  • Allowance rollover year-to-year
11. Seniority
  • Current book
12. Probation
  • Current book
13. Union Business
  • Increase Flight Pay Loss
  • Codify current practice of providing positive space travel for Company employees while on Union business
14. Union Security and Dues Check Off
  • Current book
15. Grievances, Investigation and Discipline
  • Current book
16. System Board of Adjustment
  • Current book
17. Training
  • Increase ALT DH pay
  • Codify current practice of permitting FAs to book ALT DH through Travel Planner
  • Increase distance learning / computer-based training pay, and automate payments
  • Improve protections for FAs who are unable to attend in-person recurrent training due to Company convenience or error
  • Increase pay for in-person training
  • Company to negotiate mutually agreeable terms with the Union before assigning ATS trainers to perform duties other than IOE and Line Checks. This proposal is offered as a codification of existing right.
18. Furlough, Displacement and Recall
  • Current book
19. Job Vacancy Bid System
  • Current book
20. Opening and Closing of Domiciles
  • Remove 60-day perfect attendance requirement before paying out sick bank
21. Moving Expenses
  • Increase moving expense reimbursement
22. Physical Examinations
  • Current book
23. Management Rights
  • Current book
24. General
  • Remove trash removal duties for FAs
  • Company to pay FA a fee for each successfully processed pay adjustment
  • Improvements to minimum requirements for crew lounges
  • Company to consult with Union when making major changes to crew lounges
  • Compensation for flights departing from each catering hub (i.e. without drawer swaps)
  • Procedures to address overpayments on FA paychecks
25. Insurance
  • Improve dental coverage
  • Add domestic partners to insurance coverage
  • Reduce FA insurance contribution rates
  • Reinstate GLP-1 coverage for weight loss. This proposal is offered as a codification of existing right.
26. Prisoner, Hostage, or Hijacking Benefits
  • Current book
27. Retirement
  • Increase 401k match
  • Auto-enrollment for 401k
  • Clarify language and policy of Section 27.B (post-retirement coverage)
  • Remove perfect attendance requirement for sick bank payout upon separation
28. Employee Assistance Program
  • Some first-time offenses to be referred to EAP/Professional Standards for FAs on probation
29. Safety and Health
  • Add fume events to “serious incident” list
  • Company to notify FAs of decisions regarding fatigue calls, including reason for denial
  • Accepted fatigue calls will be pay protected if deemed operational. This proposal is offered as a codification of existing right
  • Company to cover cost of required immunizations
  • Company to provide appropriate gloves and hand sanitizer aboard flights. This proposal is offered as a codification of existing right
  • Company to provide appropriate PPE upon federal declaration of pandemic emergency
30. Drug and Alcohol Testing
  • Increase alcohol/drug test pay
31. Hours of Service
  • Rest to begin “behind the door” at hotel
  • Increase scheduled rest between duty periods
  • Reduce duty day
  • Improvements to extension procedures and pay
  • Increase the number of times the commuter policy protection can apply in a twelve-month period
  • Company to provide FAs with the specific reason for a schedule change (i.e. weather, maintenance, etc.)
32. Duration
  • Three (3) year contract

Side letters and contract cleanup

SL#1. Signing Bonus
  • Eliminate
SL#2. Monthly Guarantee True Up
  • Eliminate (replaced by SL#8)
SL#3. Printed Bid Packet
  • Eliminate
SL#4. Peak Period Attendance Bonus
  • Keep
SL#5. Arbitrator Panel
  • Keep
SL#6. Contract Modification
  • Remove Section A (see Section 3 above)
  • Incorporate Sections B - F
  • Eliminate
Ltr 1
  • Incorporate gender neutral language throughout CBA
  • Eliminate
SL#7. Amendment to SL#4
  • Incorporate into SL#4
  • Eliminate
SL#8. Amendment to Minimum Monthly Guarantee
  • Incorporate into CBA and eliminate
SL#9. Half Lines of Flying
  • Incorporate into CBA and eliminate
SL#10. Trades Between Flight Attendants
  • Incorporate into CBA and eliminate
Contract Cleanup
  • Ltr 1 – incorporate gender neutral language throughout CBA
  • Adjust 3.B.2 to account for LOA 9 (Half Lines)
  • 7.H.2.g – correction to example 3
  • 25.N.1 – add header
  • Add/delete/modify contract language as required over the course of negotiations

Note: AFA reserves the right to add to, delete, or modify these proposals at any time.