Association of Flight Attendants-CWA

Labor Day 2019

September 2, 2019 — Happy Labor Day, Flight Attendants! For Aviation’s First Responders it’s another day at the office with 17.5 million people traveling on our planes over the holiday. But this day is more than a long weekend that marks the end of summer. This is our day as working Americans and it’s an opportunity to focus the public on the history that’s not taught in schools about the struggles of working people to achieve the rights we have today. Watch the video from AFA President Sara Nelson: 

August 30, 2019 — AFA sends our love to the family of Captain Al Haynes. His heroic efforts in Sioux City, Iowa, just over 30 years ago, and throughout his flying career, leave us a lasting legacy of safety in flight. We will honor him in our work for safe skies every day.

August 30, 2019 — Hundreds turned out with AFA Hawaiian Airlines Flight Attendants last Wednesday in HNL as they called on management to come to the bargaining table and negotiate fairly.

New KCM Requirements But No Uniform Required

August 30, 2019 — This past week we worked with airlines and pilots to encourage TSA to halt a previously announced uniform requirement while we discussed possible other mitigations to maintain and enhance the Known Crewmember security screening.

AFA Resources for Hurricane Dorian

September 6, 2019 (Updated) - On Friday, eastern North Carolina, southeast Virginia and the southern Delmarva Peninsula will take a blast from Dorian’s heavy rain, strong winds and storm surge through the morning and afternoon. Several locations along the North Carolina Outer Banks had already reported wind gusts up to 95 mph as the eyewall, the hurricane’s zone of the most severe weather surrounding its center, passed over early Friday. The storm officially made landfall over Cape Hatteras at 8:35 a.m.

Now is the time to begin thinking about what kinds of preparations you might need to make over the next couple of days. AFA EAP is always available at 800-424-2406.

KCM Update August 28, 2019

(August 28, 2019) - Your reports have been extremely helpful in addressing issues. We received one tenth the number of reports that we did yesterday - so you made a huge difference in helping us resolve issues. Keep reporting any discrepancies. The reporting for link is at the end of this message.

Important KCM Update

August 26, 2019 — Since the announcement on Saturday that Known Crewmember (KCM) procedures would change AFA has been interfacing with TSA, industry, and the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA). We are pleased to report to you the procedure to require a uniform for access through KCM will not go into effect this Wednesday. The KCM website has been updated with this notice: https://www.knowncrewmember.org/8-26-19-notice-to-known-crewmembers/.