Jetblue, more so than any other airline is absolutely dependent on a somewhat happy, cooperating pilot group. The infrastructure and management skills are so weak that this place relies on Pilots not only doing there jobs well, but doing everyone else's job too. If JB plays games with negotiations and the pilots decide to play ball too JB will fall apart slowly (alot faster if an IROP is involved).
IROPS at Jetblue are horrendous. Despite pilots tripping over themselves to help out and find solutions, JB still can not UNFUKK themselves for days. During the next IROP if just half the pilots decided to put their phones down and wait for JB to fix things, the company would shut down for a week.
Just one of many examples...Storm beginning of this year. Called out Fatigued due to unable to get 8 hours of sleep opportunity and unable to reach Crew Sched (on hold for two hours) to adjust sched. Fatigue call went in at 0700 for 1000 show (1100 DEP). At 1300 they called me and asked me where I was. It took them 2 hours past departure time to realize they didn't have a pilot for a flight. This is a completely normal way of doing business here when the slightest thing goes wrong. Numerous other debacles like not obtaining overflight permits, operating out non tower airports not in our Ops Specs, forgetting to put notams on releases for months.
Jetblue, is in general a pleasant place to go to work. If they choose to change that because they don't like Unions, it will become unpleasant for all, especially all the management that have had their a$$es covered by us and haven't had to answer for their ineptness.
