September 7,
2000
Captain Charles Culley’s Passing
Local Council Meeting
LEC Elections
Rerouted in LAS?
New Vacancy and Reduction Bid
By coincidence, the negotiating topic next week is section 24, “filling of
vacancies.” This section has been the object of many grievances during the last five
years because it is so poorly worded. We have strongly encouraged the company to issue
separate reduction and vacancy bids to avoid confusion but they choose to ignore our
advice and we cannot compel them to do so. If you’re in doubt as to the meaning of
our current section 24 and how you may be impacted I suggest you speak to one of your
elected representatives.
Latest FAA Compliance
Last year Mr. Ron Rosenhahn, our former POI and a man of impeccable credentials, was
removed from his position because it was alleged that he was “picking on”
America West, targeting them for unfair scrutiny. It seems to me that someone owes Mr.
Rosenhahn an apology. May I suggest Mr. Franke and Ms. Garvey do the honors?
That’s it for this week. The next hotline update will be on Thursday, September 14th.
Thanks for listening.
- Captain Charles Culley’s Passing
- Local Council Meeting
- LEC Elections
- Rerouted in LAS?
- New Vacancy and Reduction Bid
- AWA FAA Compliance
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| Good evening, this is MEC Chairman Roger Cox with the hotline message for Thursday, September 7th. Tonight’s topics are: On behalf of the MEC, I would like to extend my sincere condolences to the families of AWA pilot Captain Charles Culley and AWA flight attendant Lynn Kissel. They were killed Saturday when the light aircraft Charles was flying crashed in the McDowell Mountains. Please check with the chief pilot’s office for details of the funeral arrangements. A local council meeting will be held at 6pm, next Tuesday, September 12, at the Best Western/Grace Inn in Ahwatukee. The hotel is located at I-10 and Elliott Road. All pilots in good standing are encouraged to attend and participate. I also want to remind you that any pilot in good standing interested in being a candidate for an LEC position must announce his candidacy by October 9th. Ballots will be mailed out in October. One of our objectives in granting Reserve D to the company on an interim basis was to stop lineholders from being rerouted on Las Vegas night pairings. We hear the company is burning Reserve D pilots by using them on ferries to overhaul depots. That’s okay as long as we don’t wind up with any night reroutes because we had to use a Reserve C. We need to hear from you promptly if you are rerouted for this reason. Remember, Reserve D is an interim agreement. The company intends to issue a bid tomorrow reducing B757 Captains by 3, B737 Captains by 37, and increasing A320 Captains by 80. You can plan for the bid to close ten days after issuance, so I encourage you to submit a new bid or verify your standing bid. The reduction is due to additional maintenance check lines, which take more aircraft off line. No aircraft are leaving the property.
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