4:15 Minimum Duty Day – Another AFA Scare Tactic Laid to Rest

Below is an email that dispels the myths and lies that AFA supporters have been spewing at campaign tables around the system. Paying people to staff theses tables and spread these lies has cost AFA members millions of dollars. In the email below and the document attached, the truth about 4:15 minimum duty credit – and other credits is explained. The 4:15 credit, like other credits will be included in crew tracker programming, when patterns/rotations are built. Historically, credit pay (4:15, trip hour credit, etc.) makes up less than 1% of total compensation. While the attached document contains an exhaustive and comprehensive analysis of trip construction, the main point is this:

“When all is said and done, no matter which work rule(s) we wind up with, Crew Planning will continue to make our trips as cost efficient and productive as possible. Currently, credit time on our trips (system-wide) averages around 1%. The reality is, if we had any kind of a Minimum Duty Period Credit (Daily Guarantee), Crew Planning is going to do all it can do within the boundaries of our legalities, to minimize paying any credit time.”

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Original email………

In the past I’ve had the pleasure to work with both of these F/As on several committees. There’s not a F/A on this planet who won’t attest to the incredible dedication to and advocacy for our workgroup on the part of Mark Clarke and Candy Bruton. I suggest you peruse the attached 9 pages carefully, share with your coworkers and encourage every F/A you know to vote NO using Option #3. And don’t be afraid to refute the paid afa staffers filtering through F/A lounges lying about how to vote NO or encouraging fence-sitters to vote option #2 for “another union” which they know will benefit afa.

MARCEL VIENS - LAX

I am sending you a document that has great information...it is a comparison/analysis of the PMNW 4:15 Minimum Duty Period Credit and the PMDL 4:45 Duty Period Average. Danny Campbell has been out in the ATL lounge and on FaceBook claiming that he has compared Delta trips with NW trips and every time the 4:15 MDPC brings more money to the F/A. We all know that in some circumstances 4:15 would result in a higher time trips, and in other circumstances the 4:45 average would be to the f/as benefit...but ultimately the trips are always built in effort to minimize ANY credit time, and therefore replacing our 4:45 average with 4:15 would result in a significantly different complexion of trips.

The attached document is an analysis done by the EIG Ops and Planning team...Mark Clarke did an amazing job pulling the information together in an easy to understand format and you will see this contains a lot of good information. We are hoping you all will share this with your groups.

Thanks so much...let us know if you have any questions...

Candy Bruton ATL

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