$27,500--I'll take it

[NSW]

BDL TAF at the time the flights diverted... between 16 and 18Z I believe:

TAF KBDL 291120Z 2912/3018 02007KT P6SM OVC100
FM291500 03010KT P6SM OVC070
FM291800 03010G18KT 2SM RA BR OVC020
FM292200 02014G22KT 3/4SM -SN BR OVC010

BDL went 1/4SM +SN at 1740Z and stayed that way all night, picking up 20" of snow. This might be the worst TAF I've ever seen.

JFK lost the LOC for 4R and the GS for 13L with a gusty NE wind. EWR lost their 4R LOC as well. BOS was turning diversions away.

B6 has a lot to answer for, but so do the NWS and the FAA.

 

[aewanabe]

"Look we can't seem to get any help from our company." JB captain

QUOTE]

Sounds like incompetant leadership at the corporate level. I hope Jetblue doesn't retaliate against the pilots for speaking ill (truth?) of their employer.

Our CEO has already put out a company-wide email with thinly-veiled criticism of the pilots for "finger-pointing". Good thing JBPA... Wait, no it's ALPA... Crap, its nobody....has our back. Oh wait, 1193 dummies thought the PVC and values would save them. Bet those two guys are feeling real warm and fuzzy about that right now.

 

[WildcatFan]

I wonder what the company would have got them some stairs if the slides came out? Looked like it was about a 50 foot walk to the jetway stairs up into the terminal.

Ther is absolutely nothing in the FAA regs that allow an airline, any airline, to hold passengers hostage. The pax are not prisoners.

 

[PsubS]

Our CEO has already put out a company-wide email with thinly-veiled criticism of the pilots for "finger-pointing".

We will only get better by working together. I know the passion everyone brings to the job sometimes leads to frustration when things don’t go right. But we can never, ever, blame each other for a service failure. I expect JetBlue Crewmembers to stand up and take responsibility for their part, and ask for help when help is needed. We either win together or lose together – no one stands alone. Part of this requires everyone to be willing to give and take feedback dispassionately, and not personally.

Doesn't sound to me as if he was singling out the pilots in this comment. Certainly the pilots weren't the only ones pointing out the problems at BDL.

 

[CA1900]

Choosing BDL as the alternate was poor planning. A little more gas and use Pittsburgh. Plenty of gates...

I don't disagree that BDL was not the best choice, but realize that those unused gates at PIT (in the A and B concourses) are completely walled off and not usable.

 

[Cavity]

The chief pilot was worried that pilots shirts were different shades of blue and the company was busy getting ready for a Halloween silent disco at T-5 in JFK, that's why.

You speak the truth with that statement, you said it perfectly.

 

[johnsonrod]

Let's face it, there's not much to like about Connecticut anyways... That place blows!!!!! This situation reinforces it for me. Sounds like the airport personnel are just a bunch of idiots - 7 hours to deplane people?????

 

[IBNAV8R]

We will only get better by working together. I know the passion everyone brings to the job sometimes leads to frustration when things don’t go right. But we can never, ever, blame each other for a service failure. I expect JetBlue Crewmembers to stand up and take responsibility for their part, and ask for help when help is needed. We either win together or lose together – no one stands alone. Part of this requires everyone to be willing to give and take feedback dispassionately, and not personally.

Corporate speak translated:

Don't make us look bad, even if we royally screwed up. Just whitewash it and throw yourself under the bus.
If you screwed up, be honest, take the blame and throw yourself under the bus.
You can always ASK us for help but, if we refuse to give it, STFU, or we will throw you under the bus.

Remember we're all in this together..

 

[C601]

Sounds like the CEO is losing his marbles ....

 

[densoo]

Gordon Bethune speaks

As expert commentator: "we've been having transportation issues since Donner Pass."

Gotta love it.

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000054507