Jetblue hiring... how and why?

[ASA_Aviator]

What? You're leaving too?!?

Nope. I'm just happy when people above me leave, for whatever reason!

 

[ASA_Aviator]

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[MikeSF340]

They have to hire to replace the Airbus Captains that leave to take recall at American,United and Delta soon . Destination airline? Not so much. American has much better healthcare and work rules in bankrupcy. United and Delta contracts blow away everything in Jetblues individual contract. The company is now talking about an unlimited 2 way code share. Organic growth was the word du jour during the last few years. Management said we need protections against code sharing 16 months ago and now they say we dont need those protections. They actually told the pilots its good for their growth plans. Profit sharing? None whatsoever! My advice to regional guys is dont waste time with jetblue hold out for a major.

Any regional guy who holds out for anything either lives in base or hasn't been watching what's been going on at the regionals the past 10 years. JetBlue might have its problems, but comparing it to most regionals is stupid. Also, remember that the perfect "major" airline job might never come.

 

[pilotpayne]

any regional guy who holds out for anything either lives in base or hasn't been watching what's been going on at the regionals the past 10 years. Jetblue might have its problems, but comparing it to most regionals is stupid. Also, remember that the perfect "major" airline job might never come.

this....100%

 

[fam62c]

It's going to be cheaper for JB to have some pilot attrition that it will be to match the contracts at SW, DAL, etc. There are bound to be some pilots leaving but as a percentage of the total pilot group how many is it really? Some accountant somewhere is probably running the numbers on this and looking at the cost of replacing attrition compared to the cost of increasing compensation to reduce the attrition. Somewhere there is a balance point and they will figure out what it is. I think it's going to be quite some time before they have any trouble finding new hires.

 

[donvag]

My advise is this. If you are a captain at a regional with over 1000pic. It's better to wait it out at jetblue than at a regional for. a phone call from a legacy. If you have a family, jetblue benefits are insulting when compared to our peers at other airlines.
You get to fly and do class II Navigation. Get time in an airplane over 100k pounds.
While jetblue has aircraft orders, those can always be deferred. At other airlines pilots are getting older. That is inevitable.

 

[TSA/TWA/AA/TSA]

My advise is this. If you are a captain at a regional with over 1000pic. It's better to wait it out at jetblue than at a regional for. a phone call from a legacy. If you have a family, jetblue benefits are insulting when compared to our peers at other airlines.
You get to fly and do class II Navigation. Get time in an airplane over 100k pounds.
While jetblue has aircraft orders, those can always be deferred. At other airlines pilots are getting older. That is inevitable.

Thought that before with age 60, now they will just raise the age to 70. So maybe you shouldn't count on that either.

 

[Smarta$$]

Thought that before with ag 60, now they will just raise the age to 70. So maybe you shouldn't count on that either.

Or recession, or capacity discipline, or failing business model, or unable to compete, or.....

 

[kommutrdog]

If Delta and/or American wants to get rid of that pesky thorn-in-their-side blue outfit in NY and BOS they don't have to buy JB or even go up against them in a route-structure battle: Just give preferential interviews/hiring to JB pilots at a rate which the training dept. can't match. Then, JB starts parking airplanes...and that will be that.

 

[Smarta$$]

If Delta and/or American wants to get rid of that pesky thorn-in-their-side blue outfit in NY and BOS they don't have to buy JB or even go up against them in a route-structure battle: Just give preferential interviews/hiring to JB pilots at a rate which the training dept. can't match. Then, JB starts parking airplanes...and that will be that.

You are theoretically correct. However, your theory depends heavily on one very important assumption. An assumption that I have observed to be largely false so far at least.