DALLAS — Alaska Airlines (AS) 6,900+ Flight Attendants, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA), have ratified a new 3-year contract.
This marks the eighth labor contract ratified in the past three years between an Alaska Air Group company and its represented workgroups. These agreements aim to improve wages, enhance quality of life, and support the company's long-term success.
The new contract includes significant improvements, including higher remuneration, enhanced flexibility, and better benefits. This agreement represents a milestone for AS and underscores Flight Attendants' vital role in ensuring safety and operational excellence.
The new agreement saw strong participation, with over 90 % of AS Flight Attendants voting and an overwhelming 95 % approving the new terms.
Effective tomorrow, March 2, 2025, the contract introduces higher pay, including a newly implemented market rate adjustment, boarding pay, and other financial improvements.
It also maintains a 10-hour- and 30-minute duty day alongside Southwest Airlines (WN), the shortest in the industry. Enhancements to scheduling insurance premium caps and other key provisions greatly enhance Flight Attendants' quality of life.
Stay connected at every stop along your journey! Get any Saily mobile data plan at 5% off with the code AIRWAYSMAG5 + up to 5GB free!
Find out more in our latest issue. Explore all the subscriptions plans that Airways has for you. From thrilling stories to insights into the commercial aviation industry. We are a global review of commercial flight.
Exploring Airline History Volume I
.webp)
David H. Stringer, the History Editor for AIRWAYS Magazine, has chronicled the story of the commercial aviation industry with his airline history articles that have appeared in AIRWAYS over two decades. Here, for the first time, is a compilation of those articles.
Subjects A through C are presented in this first of three volumes. Covering topics such as the airlines of Alaska at the time of statehood and Canada's regional airlines of the 1960s, the individual histories of such carriers as Allegheny, American, Braniff, and Continental are also included in Volume One. Get your copy today!
March 2025
