JB Candidates in phase II

[BeachBummer]

I was in the sim before I finished phase II in 08', but these are different days...

 

[Splert]

So basically it is exactly what we were told on the interview, in our phase II emails and our July 6 updates... "We dont know anything, but it looks like it will be between August and January"

This whole thing could implode very quickly... All the people I know in phase II have not recieved the paperwork they were told to expect at the begining of the month...

...and so it begins.

 

[clickclickboom]

wow now they treat the potential new hires like the rest of the pilots here..


Keep confident guys i can assure you that we are drastically understaffed.

the sept bids are out and our monthly bid divisor difference between last year and this year is a 14 hour increase yoy....

We are going to need 75-150 pilots asap..

Management is trying to get blood from a stone and are falling on their own sword as the operation falls apart.. Guess they figured all the pilots would go above and beyond as they had in other years..

 

[flydoc]

Talked to a friend of mine today as we were both starting our respective trips. He is about 25-30% on the CA list. He hasn't flown less than 90 hr/mo all year. This month, he has 90 hrs, w/ 12 days off-- not commutable. He can't PTO a trip to save his life-- no reserve coverage. He looked burned out and hadn't even started his 4 day yet. He WILL time out before the end of the year. Management is running the operation into the ground. There is no advantage in seniority. Unless you are in the top 100-150 here, you have virtually no control of your life. At our current "pace", my friend is looking at having the same schedule for the next 10 years. I am looking at retiring in the right seat of the Airbus in 20 years. If our company is around that long.... I would be surprised if it is.

 

[curtaindriver]

Talked to a friend of mine today as we were both starting our respective trips. He is about 25-30% on the CA list. He hasn't flown less than 90 hr/mo all year. This month, he has 90 hrs, w/ 12 days off-- not commutable. He can't PTO a trip to save his life-- no reserve coverage. He looked burned out and hadn't even started his 4 day yet. He WILL time out before the end of the year. Management is running the operation into the ground. There is no advantage in seniority. Unless you are in the top 100-150 here, you have virtually no control of your life. At our current "pace", my friend is looking at having the same schedule for the next 10 years. I am looking at retiring in the right seat of the Airbus in 20 years. If our company is around that long.... I would be surprised if it is.

I don't feel sorry for that guy.......call in sick!! It's that simple, pilots do it every day. These guys that are flying like this are part of the problem.
BTW, how do you know what this airline is doing in 20 years? Just curious.......I don't think anybody else does.

CD

 

[GuinessGuy]

one gets addicted to the 95hr a month check..........

 

[GuinessGuy]

.Hang in there PhaseII'ers. We should find out some hiring numbers this week. If I were a betting man, I would say you guys should here something in a couple weeks.

 

[TommyG]

How about the guys who need an interview? I'm willing my phone to ring.

 

[Headfake14]

We should hear something by this thursday or friday. There was an email about 'growth' for this week. I assumed it's more flying/cities/city pairs...

but it could've been about someone's mole...who knows...

 

[flydoc]

I don't feel sorry for that guy.......call in sick!! It's that simple, pilots do it every day. These guys that are flying like this are part of the problem.
BTW, how do you know what this airline is doing in 20 years? Just curious.......I don't think anybody else does.

CD

I don't know what JetBlue will be doing in 20 years. I can however say, that based on their "business plan," It certainly will not be a "destination airline." I'm sure we will limp along, content on our New York and Boston market share. But growth beyond those markets? Come on. Look at our poor advertising campaigns, our failed growth into markets that were screaming for it, yet Southwest and Airtran just gobbled it up due to their aggressiveness and our unwillingness to step on any toes.

No. JetBlue is nothing but a large "regional" with blue shirts and delusions about being different. Tell me I'm wrong....

 

[aewanabe]

Man, I'd love to tell you you're wrong; I'm still fuming about AUS-SJC and CUN. Why the hell we are *************************-footing around the whole rest of the country is beyond me.

 

[Headfake14]

Man, I'd love to tell you you're wrong; I'm still fuming about AUS-SJC and CUN. Why the hell we are *************************-footing around the whole rest of the country is beyond me.

...fuming? because we just mention those routes and not pulling the trigger?

SAV is throwing itself at us like the fat chick the night before prom looking for a date.

Routes we should've started long ago...ORD-SJU, AUS-SJC/CUN, BWI-SJU, BWI-FLL/MCO,

And uh !!!! A T L !!!!

 

[8vATE]

Wow...

You guys are way too smart to be pilots!

Maybe you all should go in to management...
Route planning, marketing and yield management... it's all so simple. Put the airplanes anywhere and they will make money!!


Robin Hayes would love to hear your "pearls of wisdom"!!!

 

[BeachBummer]

Anyways, 40-90 new hires by Dec.

From the pilot call yesterday.

Good Luck to all

 

[aewanabe]

You guys are way too smart to be pilots!

Maybe you all should go in to management...
Route planning, marketing and yield management... it's all so simple. Put the airplanes anywhere and they will make money!!


Robin Hayes would love to hear your "pearls of wisdom"!!!

Easy to throw stones from that Airbus left seat. You're not frustrated to hear Southwest and Alaska picking up adding routes from a market (AUS) that we were going to develop while there's crickets on our end? Probably doesn't matter when you're gonna just stick to your 12 days a month of Red-eye turns and then hob-nob at FSC on your days off. Maybe you're one of those "project" guys getting 90 hours a month to hang out in the office?

As a matter of fact I do share my pearls of wisdom of with my chain of command about ideas to improve our service and network. I'm passionate about the airline and my career, and it's a different looking place from the right seat of the commuter jet (I'm doing 20 legs in 6 days this week). Thanks for being a smart-ass.