Dizel8
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- Feb 27, 2003
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"But with JB rates where they areas well as LCC competition, management will be forced to persue and emulate those pay and operating structures. There is no way mainline will stoop to that low of pay."
I have to chime in on this one. The jetblue EMB payrates have been beaten to death, with god reason I might add, however, who will jetblue be competing with? It will be CHQ, Mesa, SKYW etc, since those are the companies doing mainlines "bidding", hence jetblue needed a cost structure that would be competetive now and in the future. Sad as it is, I do not see any "regionals" getting a payraise in the near future. It that the fault of jetblue or the fault of the "regionals" currently flying? Did the egg come before the chicken?
One thing that jetblue is doing, and which ALPA/mainline pilots should have done from the get go, is a single seniority list. If it says jetblue on the side, it will be flown by jetblue pilots on the jetblue seniority list. Had ALPA done this, they could have controlled and influenced the pay and working conditions on the smaller airplanes. However, they did not, which begs the question, why not? Was it because they did not care or were it because they lacked foresight?
I have to chime in on this one. The jetblue EMB payrates have been beaten to death, with god reason I might add, however, who will jetblue be competing with? It will be CHQ, Mesa, SKYW etc, since those are the companies doing mainlines "bidding", hence jetblue needed a cost structure that would be competetive now and in the future. Sad as it is, I do not see any "regionals" getting a payraise in the near future. It that the fault of jetblue or the fault of the "regionals" currently flying? Did the egg come before the chicken?
One thing that jetblue is doing, and which ALPA/mainline pilots should have done from the get go, is a single seniority list. If it says jetblue on the side, it will be flown by jetblue pilots on the jetblue seniority list. Had ALPA done this, they could have controlled and influenced the pay and working conditions on the smaller airplanes. However, they did not, which begs the question, why not? Was it because they did not care or were it because they lacked foresight?