kirkpatrick
Veteran
My info shows 3310 TWA FA's on the furlough list. 118 retired in Jan alone. My guess is fewer than 2000 will ever be trained and return to the line as AA FA's.
The Seniority Integration Agreement (or SIA, as it's known) is first of all an agreement between AA and the APFA. We had nothing to do with it and didn't agree to anything. There are serious problems with the SIA which will have to be addressed sooner or later. I doubt if we'll be consulted then either.
Basically, the problem is this: after 9/11 our bases and satellites were closed and we were all corralled in STL. After furloughing 700 of us in Nov, that left STL still a rather large base of about 3500, big even by AA standards. The SIA states that no TWA FA can transfer to another AA base until all AA furloughees are recalled. No one at that point anticipated that all of us would be laid off or that STL would be cut to barely over 500. There are still 958 natives hired after the acquisition who are junior to us, so obviously all of us must be recalled before they can be recalled. The question is, where can we go? There will never be room for us all in STL again, and only a handful at a time will be able to return there.
The SIA also states that if we stay in STL we keep our original TWA seniority. If we transfer out voluntarily, we revert to AA seniority of 4/10/01, unless we transfer back to STL within two years, where we can regain our TWA seniority. Here's the problem with that: if I'm recalled and there are openings in LGA, MIA and DFW and I choose LGA, have I voluntarily transferred out of STL? It wasn't offered to me in the first place, and it could be over two years before the opportunity to get back is is available. I personally will choose LGA regardless of seniority, since I and my family live here, and many TWAers will choose other bases for the same reason. But many will want back into STL and won't be able to get there.
These problems will have to be dealt with. And for aafsc; we don't need expansion for recall. Attrition is running over 1000 per year and we will return based on that alone. There are only 98 natives left ahead of us. I'm sure you'll see TWA FA's on the line this year, maybe even me.
MK
The Seniority Integration Agreement (or SIA, as it's known) is first of all an agreement between AA and the APFA. We had nothing to do with it and didn't agree to anything. There are serious problems with the SIA which will have to be addressed sooner or later. I doubt if we'll be consulted then either.
Basically, the problem is this: after 9/11 our bases and satellites were closed and we were all corralled in STL. After furloughing 700 of us in Nov, that left STL still a rather large base of about 3500, big even by AA standards. The SIA states that no TWA FA can transfer to another AA base until all AA furloughees are recalled. No one at that point anticipated that all of us would be laid off or that STL would be cut to barely over 500. There are still 958 natives hired after the acquisition who are junior to us, so obviously all of us must be recalled before they can be recalled. The question is, where can we go? There will never be room for us all in STL again, and only a handful at a time will be able to return there.
The SIA also states that if we stay in STL we keep our original TWA seniority. If we transfer out voluntarily, we revert to AA seniority of 4/10/01, unless we transfer back to STL within two years, where we can regain our TWA seniority. Here's the problem with that: if I'm recalled and there are openings in LGA, MIA and DFW and I choose LGA, have I voluntarily transferred out of STL? It wasn't offered to me in the first place, and it could be over two years before the opportunity to get back is is available. I personally will choose LGA regardless of seniority, since I and my family live here, and many TWAers will choose other bases for the same reason. But many will want back into STL and won't be able to get there.
These problems will have to be dealt with. And for aafsc; we don't need expansion for recall. Attrition is running over 1000 per year and we will return based on that alone. There are only 98 natives left ahead of us. I'm sure you'll see TWA FA's on the line this year, maybe even me.
MK
