Union Flight Attendants secure $4.2 billion in improvements

Union Flight Attendants at American secured $4.2 billion in added improvements with their new contract that was ratified by 87% last month. Here’s how our “work rules” at Delta stack up.

Union Flight Attendants at AA will make more than Delta Flight Attendants starting this month and receive retroactive pay from 2020. Last year, Delta earned $4.6 Billion — more than United, American, Southwest, and Alaska airlines combined. Without our union, Delta Flight Attendants are falling further behind.

AA Flight Attendants will get 200% Holiday Pay for Any Flight Touching the Day

If either the departure time of the flight or the arrival time of the flight touches or was scheduled to touch the actual holiday, Holiday Pay would apply for the entire flight segment flown.

Meanwhile, we’re only paid flight hours flown on the actual holiday. If you fly on one of the seven approved holidays you will be paid the greater of the hourly holiday rate for each flight hour and fraction thereof worked on the approved holiday (greater of scheduled or actual), or $6.25 per hour for time-away-from-base (TAFB) on the holiday (base local time). That means that while a new hire will be making well over time and a half, those with more seniority will be making a lot less than time and a half.

AA Flight Attendants will get 150% Pay waiting for Hotel following a Schedule Modification

• If the Company fails to notify the Flight Attendant of a hotel assignment within 1 hour from the later of block-in at actual layover city or schedule modification in accordance with the timelines set forth in Section 10.J.3.d or 10.J.4.a, the Flight Attendant shall be paid at the rate of 150% and credited at 100% for the duty period preceding the layover.
• If the Company fails to notify the Flight Attendant of a hotel assignment after 3 hours from the later of block-in at actual layover city or schedule modification in accordance with the timelines set forth in Section 10.J.3.d or 10.J.4.a, the Flight Attendant shall be paid at the rate of 150% and credited at 100% for the entire sequence instead of the duty period.

Delta Air Lines is the most profitable airline in the world. But the new contract at American (Delta’s competitor in size but not profit) for union Flight Attendants has provisions that far outpace our “rules” here at Delta.

Imagine what we could do for our jobs at Delta with all the profits we make possible if we had the same right to negotiate.