Flight Attendants at Alaska Airways are formally eyeing boarding pay after Delta Air Traces made historical past by changing into the primary main U.S. airline to pay its crew members for boarding.
Alaska Airways is because of begin contract negotiations with the Affiliation of Flight Attendants (AFA-CWA) and boarding pay is predicted to be on the very prime of the agenda following Delta’s transfer.
“Alaska Airways Flight Attendants positively deserve boarding pay, and boarding pay will likely be in our opening proposal to administration,” the union instructed Alaska flight attendants on Tuesday after particulars of Delta’s supply have been leaked.
From early June, Delta can pay flight attendants 50 p.c of their regular hourly charge for boarding. Flight attendants are anticipated to make no less than an extra $4,000 per 12 months because of the choice.
The shock gesture comes as Delta seeks to move off a renewed push by AFA to unionize its flight attendants. The airline additionally hopes to calm disquiet over a choice to extend boarding time on home single-aisle companies to 40 minutes previous to departure
“Whatever the underlying circumstances, the implementation of boarding pay for cabin crew at a significant airline has main implications for collective bargaining within the US aviation business going ahead–together with our upcoming negotiations,” the native Alaska Airways department of AFA instructed flight attendants.
Flight attendants at American Airways are additionally searching for boarding pay after including the demand to a raft of proposals in its personal contract negotiations with administration. The proposal was solely added after direct suggestions from flight attendants who’re more and more fed up with the standard pay construction.
The Affiliation of Flight Attendants hopes to lock boarding pay right into a collective bargaining settlement which might’t then be eliminated by administration. The union has warned that Delta administration may finish boarding pay at any time.
