Advertiser & Editorial Disclosure: The Bulkhead Seat earns an affiliate commission for anyone approved through the links below. This compensation may impact how and where links appear on this site. We work to provide the best publicly available offers to our readers. We frequently update them, but this site does not include all available offers. Opinions, reviews, analyses & recommendations are the author’s alone, and have not been reviewed, endorsed, or approved by any of these entities.
The Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA) announced today that American Airlines’ flight attendants ratified a new contract. The vote saw 95% of flight attendants participate with 87% of votes in favor of approving it.
With 95% of eligible Flight Attendants voting, 87% of American Airlines Flight Attendants voted YES to ratify the 2024 agreement. #1u #solidarity pic.twitter.com/aMQmQpioLJ
— Association of Professional Flight Attendants (@APFAunity) September 12, 2024
American employs 28,000 flight attendants and this will represent around $4 billion in hourly pay boosts, boarding compensation, profit sharing, and retroactive pay. Flight attendants have a lot to be pleased about today with well-deserved raises of 18% to 20.5% immediately and an 2.75% next year, 3% the year after, then 3% and 3.5% in the years that follow.
To get a sense of what this represents in dollars, the table above lays out what flight attendants will make in the future.
Flight attendants will also see retroactive pay as follows: 3% for 2020, 4% for 2021, 4% for 2022, 10.8% for 2023, and 20% for 2024 (through August 31st).
Boarding pay has also been agreed upon. AA flight attendants will receive 50% of their hourly rate (adjusted for the average boarding times). Flight attendants will see profit sharing equal to 10% of American’s pre-tax earnings up to $2.5 billion and 20% of pre-tax earnings above $2.5 billion. All work groups at American Airlines receive the same profit sharing percentages.
American Airlines CEO, Robert Isom, said:
It’s an exciting day for American’s nearly 28,000 flight attendants and our entire airline. Reaching an agreement for our flight attendants has been a top priority, and today, we celebrate achieving this important milestone. Both the APFA and company negotiating teams had a shared mission of delivering an agreement our flight attendants have earned, and I greatly appreciate their work and relentless focus. I want to personally thank APFA President Julie Hedrick for her leadership through these negotiations and in her daily leadership of the industry’s best flight attendants. I also wish to thank Secretary Pete Buttigieg and other partners in the Administration for their support throughout this process. And a special thanks to the American team for their exceptional work in reaching an agreement we’re all proud of.”
Anthony’s Take: Congrats to American’s flight attendants! This contract has been coming for a longtime and it’s great to see that they are going to be compensated better with pay for boarding times and profit sharing.
(Image Credits: American Airlines.)
User Generated Content Disclosure: The Bulkhead Seat encourages constructive discussions, comments, and questions. Responses are not provided by or commissioned by any bank advertisers. These responses have not been reviewed, approved, or endorsed by the bank advertiser. It is not the responsibility of the bank advertiser to respond to comments.
Advertiser & Editorial Disclosure: The Bulkhead Seat earns an affiliate commission for anyone approved through the links above This compensation may impact how and where links appear on this site. We work to provide the best publicly available offers to our readers. We frequently update them, but this site does not include all available offers. Opinions, reviews, analyses & recommendations are the author’s alone, and have not been reviewed, endorsed, or approved by any of these entities.
