IAM To Sponsor Second Flight Attendant Conference – After the positive response to last year’s first-ever Flight Attendant Conference, the IAM has announced that it will sponsor a second conference April 10^th through April 13^th, 2007, at the IAM William W. Winpisinger Education and Technology Center in Hollywood, MD.  Participants will include your Local Lodge Officers and Grievance Committee Members as well as any flight attendant members who want to attend on a voluntary basis.  Transportation to and from the conference will be provided along with meals and lodging.  Topics at the conference will include contract familiarization, the Family Medical Leave Act and the history of the Union movement in America.  If you would like to attend please contact your Local Lodge President as soon as possible so we can plan for the number of interested participants.  We look forward to seeing you!

IAM District Lodge 142 Announces Scholarship Competition – The 2007 District Lodge 142 Scholarship Program will be an essay competition open to all members in good standing, as well as their legal children who are 2007 graduating high school seniors.  The winners of the competition will receive scholarship tuition of $1,000.00, to be paid directly to the college or accredited institution of higher learning.   To apply for the competition, a fully completed application form together with an essay must be sent by U.S. Mail to the District Office and postmarked no later than midnight, April 30th, 2007.  Winners will be announced on June 30^th, 2007.  Application forms and specific rules and regulations are available through your Local Lodge.  Additionally, the General Chairperson assigned to your base can provide answers to any other inquiries concerning the entire program.  Good Luck to all entrants!

ExpressJet To Operate 10 Embraers For Delta – ExpressJet Airlines has reached an agreement to operate 10 Embraer 145XRs for Delta Air Lines.  Continental cut the planes from its service agreement with ExpressJet last year.  The aircraft will start service with Delta in June.

Get Ready for the Day of Action – The IAM Transportation Department is preparing for a major March and Rally on May 17, 2007, in Washington, DC. Thousands of working men and women from every state of the Union will join us on that day to say “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!”  For more information, visit 17may07.org

We would like to advise any former PAN-AM Flight Attendants that the I.U.F.A. Trust Distribution has concluded it’s participation in the PAN-AM bankruptcy and the trustee now plans to distribute the trust funds to former I.U.F.A. members and terminate the trust.  If you were a former dues-paying member between November 1^st, 1985, and December 1^st, 1991, you are entitled to a share of this trust.  You can contact the trust toll free at 866-239-1499 or through their web page at www.iufatrustdistribution.com to determine your eligibility.