American Airlines Negotiations

APFA Negotiations

• Negotiations Timeline
• Negotiations Updates
• Meeting Calendars
• Negotiations Communications
• Key Tentative Agreements and Proposals
• Key Issues
• Pensions
• Wages/Pay Rates
• Benefits/Health
• Productivity

It is generally understood that a goal of every employee is to increase his or her income. And, we anticipate that the collective bargaining discussions will explore a myriad of ways to achieve this goal. At the same time, we must also find ways to improve productivity in order to address our labor cost disadvantage, since our productivity is lower and our compensation is higher than virtually all of our competitors.

The significant drivers and competitive measurements of flight attendant costs are wages, pensions, vacation, pay guarantees, sick time, health benefits and personnel expenses. To compare how these "expenses per employee" stack up against the competition, we regularly review publicly available data from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). Based on DOT numbers, and even without taking into account our higher comparative expenses per hour worked, American has higher flight attendant costs than the other network passenger carriers, many of which the company competes with on a head-to-head basis.

Flight Attendant Expense per Employee

Includes Salary, Benefits and Personnel Expenses

Form 41 - Full Year 2008

Separately for reference, here's a look at American flight attendants' max pay rates as compared to other competitors. As mentioned above, these rates are just one element that are considered when measuring flight attendant productivity.

Flight Attendant Pay Rates 

Max Rates

As of May 2010