Management's Opening Proposal
This is a summary, in management’s words, of the 4 page letter management presented during the exchange of Opening Proposals.
Increase Business Flexibility
- Change scope of flight attendant duties
- Changes to Foreign National side Letter
- Enhance company’s ability to partner with other airlines
- Remove restrictions to company’s ability to select hotels
- Make voluntary furlough provisions more efficient
Enhance Customer Service, Operational Performance and Productivity
- Change flight attendant duties
- Modify hours of service
- Modify legalities
- Change flight assignments’ procedures
- Modify staffing
- Change to training provisions
- Modifications in order to reduce delays and cancellations
- Changes to purser program
- Changes to language qualified flight attendants provisions
Scheduling Effectively, Productively and Competitively
- Implementation of PBS
- Changes to ID and line construction
- Eliminate uncompetitive scheduling restrictions
- Changes to vacation
- Redefine international and domestic
- Establish satellite domiciles
Provide Competitive Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive pay for competitive work rules
- Modify leave accruals
- Modify workers compensation
- Changes to guarantees
- Increase hours
- Impose minimum flying requirement
- Changes to benefit costs
- Changes to benefit administration
Enhancing administrative efficiencies and enabling process improvements
- Use of same uniform components across employee groups
- Modify union activities provisions
- Modify union flight pay loss provisions
- Changes to communications with flight attendants
- Change to special assignment
- Modify NRPS travel rules
- Modify CJA provisions
- Modify grievance process
- Modify system board process
- Changes to medical arbitration process
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