PBS parallel bidding for Boeing pilots
will begin with Bid 167. The bid opens May 19 at 0800; closes on May 24 at 0800. Bids will
be awarded on May 26 by 1700.
A320 pilots will continue to parallel
bid for Bid 167, using the same timeline as above.
Also, generic bidding can be done now.
The analyzer, pairings, training status, and bank information will be available on May 19
when the bid opens.
The PBS Committee encourages all pilots
who have not installed the PBS Bidder Interface on their home computers to do so early! Do
not wait until the last minute, and find you have a problem.
Retirement Dinner
Negotiations
Rumors
That’s it for this
week. The next hotline will be Thursday, May 18. Thanks for listening. And remember, wear
your ALPA pin and green badge.
PBS
Retirement Dinner
Negotiations
Rumors
MEC Hotline
Good evening, this is MEC Vice Chairman Bill
Archer with the MEC Hotline update for Thursday, May 11. Tonight’s topics are:
A new PBS upgrade is now available for download on the MEC web site and the Compuserve
forum. The new software upgrade fixes many of the bugs of the previous version, as well as
includes some improvements.
The next pilot retirement dinner will be held on Tuesday, June 6 at the Doubletree Hotel
here in Phoenix. All retired AWA pilots and their spouses are invited, as well as active
pilots and their spouses. To RSVP, please call Sandi Siniaho at the MEC office by June 1.
The Negotiating Committee is scheduled to begin another week-long negotiating session with
the company on Monday, May 15th through the 19th. Details of that negotiating
session, as well as the May 1-5 session, will be included in the May 26 Table Talk. In the
meantime, continue listening to the Negotiating Committee’s KIT system hotline for
updates each Friday.
Many of you have been hearing a lot of rumors lately. I will not dignify any of them by
mentioning them on the hotline. Let me just say that no matter what you have heard, it is
only rumor and nothing more. What is important for every pilot at America West to remember
is that we are in full swing trying to negotiate an industry standard contract. The MEC is
not going to get caught up chasing every rumor that you, or even we, might hear.
Let’s stay focused on the task at hand.