YUUUUUP!
Jetblue has been basing it's pilot pay structure for the last decade off of bankrupt and concessionary contracts, your right. To boot, they haven't even kept up with the promised average of that.
Keep that glass half full though brotha.
Why is the world either BLACK or WHITE with you. He said he just looked at the pay scale and said theirs was way higher. They just got a new contract within weeks. But they were bringing our rates down through the pay review average process for years.
It took Continental pilots more than a decade to obtain those rates, but he only wants to point out that they are higher now. Not to mention they have a worldwide widebody network and are the largest airline in the world....
Basically, most of you guys going nuts on here have significantly benefited from our low cost, high growth model. You now have significant seniority, all of you, in part from taking a job with less than average compensation. But now that you have achieved significant seniority, you don't care is significantly higher costs slow down the growth for everyone behind you. You have yours, and now you want the compensation packages of the worlds largest airlines regardless of how that affects those that seek seniority advancement from the growth that YOU enjoyed.
I hate to blow your cover to the world, but you 10 or so extremists are exaggerating the problems we have and making things sound far worse than they are as a strategy to starve jetBlue of new hire\applicants (not working) and embarrass current jetBlue pilots into voting a union (which is coincidentally the main prescription you all cite to fix what ails us).
You all want a union, I get it. I have always leaned that way, but if things were even CLOSE to as bad as you pretend they are, YOU would quit, I would QUIT, the union votes of past would have passed easily.
But alas, you haven't quit.
We have things to address, especially healthcare. But you are engaged in a strategy of starving the beast and embarrassing pilots into voting the way you want. It is too dishonest and too extreme.
You pretend like every problem will be fixed with a union. You pretend like all these union airlines have had a great run, and that they are happy.
I have met THOUSANDS of miserable legacy pilots over the years, all union. They have significant problems, just different ones. I recognize that for all the problems they have had, they have maintained better benefits, but often NOT better pay. Sometimes yes, often NO.
At the end of the day, I will likely vote for a union. But at least I won't be diluding myself and others that we won't still have problems, lose some of the jetBlue that WE enjoy, likely create some new problems we didn't anticipate, but we will probably have better benefits...
But you will still be miserable, that much I guarantee.
To those reading these forums and trying to decide about jetBlue. Read every opinion. They all have something to contribute. I love my job at jetBlue and see a good future here. A union vote will eventually pass here, but if it doesn't, it will be because things are still good enough, despite having terrible healthcare coverage and some other holes in our benefits.
But understand that there are about 10 guys on here that are engaging in a strategy to make it seem FAR worse than it really is, in a concerted effort to starve the company of new applicants, new hires, and to embarrass current JB pilots into voting union. They want a union no matter what, and will tell you that a union here will be perfect, will fix everything that ails us, will create no new problems for us, and that everything at other union majors is so perfect, and they are all so happy with their careers.
