Status This Week
The additional one-day Horizon mediation session on the Attendance Policy and sick-leave-bank dispute was calendared for September 11. No written carrier-specific result dated by the close of this reporting window was located, so CrewSignal records the session without assigning an outcome.
Contract timing: Horizon’s Flight Attendant agreement became amendable on 2024.05.01. As of 2026.09.11, 2 years, 4 months and 10 days—863 days—had elapsed since that date. The first NMB-mediated session began on 2025.06.23, so 1 year, 2 months and 19 days—445 days—had elapsed in the mediated phase.
Process Signals
- The September 11 session was created specifically to use interest-based bargaining on the one-bank versus two-bank sick-leave and Attendance Policy dispute. That narrow scope provides a concrete test of whether the technique can close an identified issue.
- CWA-AFA’s September 3 update said the overall wage scales had remained unchanged since March and characterized the parties as moving closer to impasse. That remains a union assessment, not a formal NMB impasse finding or release.
- The next full session was scheduled for October 5–6 and the next picket for October 14. The prior 99.8 percent strike-authorization vote remains a leverage signal; it does not authorize a strike without the later statutory mediation and cooling-off steps.
CrewSignal Assessment
Horizon has shown extensive multi-carrier resource deployment through staff counsel, general counsel, mediation and mobilization. After 445 days in mediation, the key question is whether those resources can convert a targeted September 11 discussion into resolved language while reopening movement on compensation.
A prompt written recap is essential because the session occurred on the report date. CrewSignal will not interpret the absence of an immediate public result as failure, but the union’s own impasse rhetoric increases the need for precise disclosure of what moved and what did not.
Notable Public References
- National Mediation Board Weekly Activity Report Index — View →
- National Mediation Board FY2027 Congressional Budget Justification — View →
- Horizon CWA-AFA August Mediation Update and September 11 Session Notice — View →
- Horizon CWA-AFA Mediation Schedule — View →
- Horizon CWA-AFA Amendable-Date Committee Notice — View →
- Horizon First NMB-Mediated Session Update — View →
- Horizon CWA-AFA Strike-Authorization Process Explanation — View →