AFA Announces Tentative Agreement for 5,600 Spirit Flight Attendants
On February 20, AFA announced that it has reached a tentative agreement for 5,600 flight attendants at Spirit Airlines. Flight attendants still need to approve the new contract.
AFA did not immediately release details of the TA, saying that “full details” will be released at roadshows starting in March. They did publish the new agreed-to pay scale. The starting rate will increase to $21.42 (from $21.04 today). The top-of-scale rate, reached at 13 years of service (an improvement from the current 16 years of service), will increase to $57.53, from $51.13 today. In addition, flight attendants would see a 2% increase in 2024 and a 3% increase in 2025.
The current Spirit-AFA agreement was ratified in 2016, after nine years of negotiations. This latest TA followed almost one-and-a-half years of negotiations and was done in the midst of a potential merger with JetBlue.
On the heels of the tentative agreement, AFA announced “strong support” for the JetBlue-Spirit merger. TWU, the union for JetBlue flight attendants, is in the opposite camp, saying “JetBlue has not provided sufficient information or assurances to our Union that they are willing to make the necessary workplace improvements or protections for our members.”
Read the communication at Spirit AFA and more in Politico.
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