JetBlue interviewing?

[n757st]

Does Jetblue really not offer paid vacation? Even at my cr@ppy charter job we have paid vacation time.

We have a PTO based system. If a slot is available, you can sign up for it and it will charge you 25 hours of PTO and pay you 35 hours of credit. For someone like myself who has no kids its not a bad system, I take the month of september off yearly for 50 hours of PTO. The problem with our system is A) we only get less then 10 hours a month of PTO, B) there are limited amounts of summer and holiday vacation slots (read very little), and C) we don't have rounds of vaca bidding, so the number 1 guy on the seniority list can bid for 4 weeks of summer, christmas and thanksgiving, and recieve them all. Most airlines have rounds of bidding which forces the senior folks to choose between a holiday or the summer, (they can hold holidays off anyways, they are the most senior) here at jetblue they can have thier cake and eat it too. This locks out these vacation periods to all but the most senior bidders (read top 10%) and prevents mid seniority folks from having vacation with thier family when their family is not working. An easy solution is to increase PTO deposits, implement round bidding, and increase the vacation slots during at least the summer travel season... so far Jetblue has resisted these changes.

Another problem with the PTO system is one must choose sometimes between being sick and taking vacation. This should be read as, most sick people show up to work so they can still go on vacation. This preturbs N757ST because then he becomes sick and is forced to use HIS pto.

 

[Splert]

The problem with Jetblue vaction scam is:

Allocation
Distribution
Bidding

For instance, JFK A320 CA.

Allocation
Jetblue allocated about 800 slots
PSIA is near 1600.

Distribution
Jetblue distributed about 35 slots per month in June, July, Aug.
A peer would distribute about 150 per month in June, July, Aug.

Bidding
Jetblue 1 pass
Peer 4-6 passses.

To those duma$$ that said 'gee another pilot complaining about not being senior enough to hold summer vacation'. Well dumbnuts the bottom 95% is what we are talking about not the bottom 25%.

So STFU!!!

 

[FurloughedAgain]

Calls are going out for 7/17 class. At least one from the 3/21 interviews have been called.

 

[Dizel8]

Our COO said attrition is due to the people we hire. Guess he wants to disqualify people with experience from the hiring process, after all, they are qualified to go elsewhere.

 

[FurloughedAgain]

who knows what any of the airlines are looking for?

In 98' I was in class at AirTran with pilots on their 5th or 6th airline. They had been working for 2nd and 3rd tier airlines after furloughs and shutdowns did away with their first choices. I was convinced that I would never fall victim to their fate. I was too young, too smart, and I was winning.

I was wrong. We make the best choices we can with the information we have at the time and we hope that they work out.

This profession is a heck of a ride isn't it?

 

[B190Captain]

If your pay, healthcare, disability, retirement benefits are important to you then do not apply here.

Stay away from jetblue. Other airlines offer better pay, benefits and you will have a more secure future.

 

[ASA_Aviator]

If your pay, healthcare, disability, retirement benefits are important to you then do not apply here.

Stay away from jetblue. Other airlines offer better pay, benefits and you will have a more secure future.

We won't know until we retire if we made a good decision or not. I believe JetBlue isn't a bad move at all, and your opinion is no better or worse than mine.

You think it's a bad move, but we will have to wait 30 years to see who is correct.

 

[pilotpayne]

We won't know until we retire if we made a good decision or not. I believe JetBlue isn't a bad move at all, and your opinion is no better or worse than mine.

You think it's a bad move, but we will have to wait 30 years to see who is correct.

It's not a bad move....I guess we should all just wait at the regionals
till big D calls.... Some of our guys are so out if touch.


Still a yes voter

 

[CapnVegetto]

Reality:

Jetblue is better than any regional, lousy compared to the real airlines.

If you are stuck at a regional, even as a CA, chances are you would be better off at Jetblue.

If you are any FO at JetBlue, or even a captain in your 40's the math says you will do better over your career to leave.

That's how it is, no emotion just math. It doesn't take into account QOL, base choices, etc, but as they say in that light bulb commercial.......if you argue with math, you will lose.

 

[MikeSF340]

If your pay, healthcare, disability, retirement benefits are important to you then do not apply here.

Stay away from jetblue. Other airlines offer better pay, benefits and you will have a more secure future.

Really? That easy? If I give you my resume can you get me an interview at United, Delta, American, etc? Didn't think so......

 

[FurloughedAgain]

Really? That easy? If I give you my resume can you get me an interview at United, Delta, American, etc? Didn't think so......

Me too please.

 

[kommutrdog]

Anyone leaving a "decent" life (base, schedule, healthcare, stability, etc...) should think real hard before leaving to come to bluejet.

Our healthcare is WORSE than most regionals. No, I'm not kidding. If you're planning on having any additons to the family (spouse, kid or two) then bluejet is going to be real expensive.

If I was a jet captain with a tolerable life at a tolerable regional I wouldn't come here.

 

[pilotpayne]

Anyone leaving a "decent" life (base, schedule, healthcare, stability, etc...) should think real hard before leaving to come to bluejet.

Our healthcare is WORSE than most regionals. No, I'm not kidding. If you're planning on having any additons to the family (spouse, kid or two) then bluejet is going to be real expensive.

If I was a jet captain with a tolerable life at a tolerable regional I wouldn't come here.

Do you know what's going on in the regional world?
Go read some stuff on that board and tell me you would stick it out there.
We do have issues but I sure as heck would rather wait here not where I was and we had one of the best contracts out there.

 

[Flyby1206]

Reality:

Jetblue is better than any regional, lousy compared to the real airlines.

If you are stuck at a regional, even as a CA, chances are you would be better off at Jetblue.

If you are any FO at JetBlue, or even a captain in your 40's the math says you will do better over your career to leave.

That's how it is, no emotion just math. It doesn't take into account QOL, base choices, etc, but as they say in that light bulb commercial.......if you argue with math, you will lose.

^^^^^^Truth

 

[Ski-N-Fly]

To all new hires at JetBlue.......please help us turn this "stepping stone" carrier into a destination airline. Send in a card. Tell your friends to send in a card.