March 9, 2000 Hotline

  March 9, 2000

Negotiations

KIT System Hotline
Updates

Green Pin Backs

Whenever you see our
flight attendants wearing our pin backs, please take the time to thank him or her for
their support and unity.

Contract 2000 Pins

As a reminder, these
pins are to be worn only by Flight Pay Loss Fund donors. If you see someone wearing a pin,
who is not on the donor list, please inform one of your local council reps, or call the
MEC office.

Maintenance
Write-Ups

Stuart Smith

If you would like to
make a contribution, please make your check payable to “The Benefit of Stuart
Smith”, account number 6621944917. Mail your contribution to the Wells Fargo Bank,
700 N. Gilbert Road, Gilbert, Arizona 85234. You must be sure to include the account
number on your check. All proceeds will benefit the Smith family.

MEC and Local
Council Meetings

The next local council
meeting will also be held Tuesday, March 14 at 6pm at the Best Western Grace Inn in
Ahwatukee. The hotel is located on the SW corner of I-10 and Elliott Road in Ahwatukee.
Ample seating and refreshments will be available and we encourage you to attend.

Family Awareness
Event

If you have not
RSVP’d to Sandi Siniaho yet, you must do so immediately so that we can ensure that
there will be enough food for everyone.

Stay Focused

That’s it for this
week. The next hotline will be Thursday, March 16. Thanks for listening. And remember,
wear your ALPA pin and green badge as a sign of our solidarity.

  • Negotiations
  • KIT System updates
  • Green Pin Backs
  • Contract 2000 Pins
  • Maintenance Write-Ups
  • Stuart Smith
  • MEC and Local Council Meetings
  • Family Awareness Event
  • Stay Focused
  MEC Hotline

Good evening, this is MEC Vice Chairman Bill
Archer with the MEC Hotline update for Thursday, March 9. Tonight’s topics are:


The Negotiating Committee completed the second week-long negotiating session with the
company last week. More information about those negotiations is available on the
Negotiating Committee’s KIT system hotline, which is updated every Friday evening.

In addition to listening to the Negotiating Committee hotline, I encourage all pilots to
listen to several other committee hotlines that have been updated recently. These include
Central Air Safety, Scheduling, PBS, and SPC. Jay Prochnow, chairman of the Central Air
Safety Committee, strongly encourages pilots to pay particular attention to the fatigue
information on his hotline.

This week, we delivered 2,000 of our green pin backs to the local Association of Flight
Attendants. The flight attendants’ union has graciously offered to distribute the pin
backs to its members so that they may demonstrate their support of our contract
negotiation efforts.


Contract 2000 pins are being distributed today to pilots who have donated to the Flight
Pay Loss fund. If you previously received a pin, you will not receive a new one. These
pins are only being distributed to those pilots who did not receive a pin previously, and
those who have donated to the fund recently.


Once again, I would like to remind all pilots that if you call maintenance to your
aircraft, for any reason, write it up in the logbook.

On February 22, AWA 737 pilot Stuart Smith died suddenly at the age of 46. Stuart is
survived by his wife Lise and their two children, Jeff and Kimberly. A fund has been set
up to help Stuart’s family manage in this time of loss and sorrow.


An MEC meeting will be held on March 14th at 9am in the MEC office conference
room. Seating is limited, but you are welcome to attend.


As a reminder, the Family Awareness Committee social event is this Saturday, March 11,
from 4pm to 7pm, at the Confederate Air Force Hangar located at Falcon Field in Mesa. This
event is for all pilots in good standing and their family members.


In closing, I would like to offer a little advice that I gave the new hires at their
dinner Monday night. From now until we sign a new contract, all of the pilots at America
West will be bombard with lots of rumors, company rhetoric, and good old-fashioned gossip.
Don’t listen to it. It is easy to get distracted by the process because it takes so long.
The process is by design, long. Your MEC and negotiating team are working hard to get all
of us a contract on par with the industry. If you don’t hear it from your MEC or
Negotiating Committee, don’t believe it. Stay focused; do your job as per the FOM; follow
the contract to the letter; and don’t cut deals.