Attention Former Jetblue Pilots

[linepilot]

The purpose of this post is to make you aware that the law firm of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP is being retained by current and former pilots to dispute section 3A of your pilot agreements.

If you were a pilot at Jetblue after the change to 190 FO rates (26%) in 2007 you may receive a settlement in this case if you retain LLBL.

It sounds as if they will be moving forward soon.

For questions, comments or other thoughts you can email: [email protected].


Fly Safe!

 

[pilotchick]

thanks,
I got in.

 

[PsubS]

Greed. It's not a pretty sight.

Just because one can do something does not mean that one should do something...

 

[Raoul Duke]

don't do it, you can share in any class action settlement without having to pay any attorneys fees to this firm.

 

[Bavarian Chef]

don't do it, you can share in any class action settlement without having to pay any attorneys fees to this firm.

If I have this right from the law firm, it's not a class action lawsuit per se, and the settlement (if any) will only cover pilots on retainer. The pilots on retainer are not "suing" on the behalf of all JB pilots, and hell, we are all on individual contracts anyway.

But then, I'm a pilot. Not a lawyer. Or management. I'm better than that -- I have a soul.

 

[FNG320]

don't do it, you can share in any class action settlement without having to pay any attorneys fees to this firm.

This guy doesn't know what he is talking about. This is not a class action law suit. Our individual contracts limit us to chain of command/mediations/binding arbitration. We cannot sue JetBlue. Becuase we are 2000 individual contractors if you do not retain LLBL, then you are on your own to follow the same process (chain of command/mediations/arbitrations). In addition, you will not have access to any of the information from other such actions. You will be forced to hire your own lawyer/firm to represent you. If you don't file your own grevience, you do not profit from what LLBL does, you remain on your own contract, or if you are a prior JetBlue pilot, you are still on you own to file.

Just my opinion.......

FNG

 

[FNG320]

Greed. It's not a pretty sight.

Just because one can do something does not mean that one should do something...

It is not greed. It is lost wages. Lost wages due to inflation. Lost wages for no pay raises from 2001-2007 and minor ones after that. A retro pay raise of 26% would correct for the 22-24% inflation and then give us enough for another year. It is not greed, it is what we were promised from the beginning (but they failed to deliver)

Just my opinion.......

FNG

 

[pipejockey]

Greed. It's not a pretty sight.

Just because one can do something does not mean that one should do something...

This guys nuts!! Airline management has been paying pilots only a fraction of what they were paid prior to 9/11 and now he wants to see the pilots not get what they are due? And yet another reason this profession will never be viable living anymore. You never, ever, here a doctor or lawyer say that they think they are paid enough, yet pilots....thats another story. Pathetic!!

 

[linepilot]

This guys nuts!! Airline management has been paying pilots only a fraction of what they were paid prior to 9/11 and now he wants to see the pilots not get what they are due? And yet another reason this profession will never be viable living anymore. You never, ever, here a doctor or lawyer say that they think they are paid enough, yet pilots....thats another story. Pathetic!!

Pilots who continually say that we all make too much on the line always have a comfy place waiting for them in management or in some boondoggle of a company committee. When they start making management pay, it becomes even easier to go out and preach to their fellow pilots about greed. It only takes a huge amount of self-delusion or GREED to achieve this kind of hypocrisy.

 

[Splert]

Greed. It's not a pretty sight.

Just because one can do something does not mean that one should do something...

Then jetBlue should have retro'd the current adjustment to April of 2008 instead of post dating the retro to June of 2009 or to the date the our former VP of Ops was caught on tape saying which was Jan 2008.

We are the only pilot group that thinks post dating pay is retro pay.

Then there are all the other adjustments the company alone has stalled for 4 years.

Funny thing is JetBlue only has management to blame not negoiatation with evil unions.