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[B6Busdriver]

Or will a CBA create thousands of retirements and high paying widebody aircraft?

No one is saying that. Once again you just want to argue. How many retirements are there at Alaska? I don't hear about pilots leaving enmasses there. If the pay and benefit package was decent attrition would be cut not eliminated.

 

[Smarta$$]

And cutting atrittion would help me?

 

[Ski-N-Fly]

That's fine, and this will still be a second rate job with considerably less value than the legacies.

You're assuming we won't be assimilated by a legacy. That's a big assumption. On a side note, please stay away from sharp objects.

 

[Smarta$$]

You're assuming we won't be assimilated by a legacy. That's a big assumption. On a side note, please stay away from sharp objects.

Haha, who is it this time..... been reading this stuff for years! Let's hear your inside genius knowledge of what is about to happen to us...

This will still be a second rate job compared to the legacy airlines with massive retirements, seniority movement and higher paying fleet types. Not to mention base choices that don't require you to live 5 mins from an ocean.

Your career will still be worth far less here. Beachbummer ran the data. He showed that legacy career was definitively worth 32 million dollars more than a career at jb.

 

[pilotpayne]

Haha, who is it this time..... been reading this stuff for years! Let's hear your inside genius knowledge of what is about to happen to us...

This will still be a second rate job compared to the legacy airlines with massive retirements, seniority movement and higher paying fleet types. Not to mention base choices that don't require you to live 5 mins from an ocean.

Your career will still be worth far less here. Beachbummer ran the data. He showed that legacy career was definitively worth 32 million dollars more than a career at jb.

32 million?
Smarta$$ are you being sarcastic?

 

[Ski-N-Fly]

I think someone needs a hug.

 

[oldxfr8dog]

No one is saying that. Once again you just want to argue. How many retirements are there at Alaska? I don't hear about pilots leaving enmasses there. If the pay and benefit package was decent attrition would be cut not eliminated.

(Cliff Clavin voice) "Oh yeah. It's a little known fact that most of the AS pilots have their apps in at B6".
Must the blue chips or those FA guys that walk funny...

 

[FurloughedAgain]

Cliff Claven reference is probably wasted on 90% of this forum's participants (toddlers)... But I liked it!!

 

[eyeamthechosen1]

Getting back to the main purpose of this thread, why would a qualified pilot applicant meeting the competitive hiring minimums of a major airline even consider applying to JetBlue?

Because every pilot isn't going to have the opportunity/contacts/luck/drive/qualifications to go to Delta, American or United. Some people have to make the best of their situation. What is a guy or girl supposed to do? Sit a Express Jet, Mesa or any other crappy regional and wait for a lottery ticket to go to a Legacy carrier? That's just dumb.

 

[MikeSF340]

Because every pilot isn't going to have the opportunity/contacts/luck/drive/qualifications to go to Delta, American or United. Some people have to make the best of their situation. What is a guy or girl supposed to do? Sit a Express Jet, Mesa or any other crappy regional and wait for a lottery ticket to go to a Legacy carrier. That's just dumb.

STOP MAKING SENSE!!!! Stick to the plan man. JetBlue is the worst job in the history of aviation!!! They have slave masters sitting on the jumpseats with whips. Get your story right!

 

[linepilot]

STOP MAKING SENSE!!!! Stick to the plan man. JetBlue is the worst job in the history of aviation!!! They have slave masters sitting on the jumpseats with whips. Get your story right!

Don't over-react.

JetBlue is roughly 65% of what we are told (day in and day out) to believe by the used-car-salesmen in LSC. OK, we're big boys and girls. We got hustled and it's time to call it what it is:

a second tier, stepping stone, with very little opportunity for growth, and a really great propaganda department.

What's wrong with a little reality?

 

[StarChecker]

STOP MAKING SENSE!!!! Stick to the plan man. JetBlue is the worst job in the history of aviation!!! They have slave masters sitting on the jumpseats with whips. Get your story right!

So just keep you out of the open cockpit biplane in February and you're thrilled?

All we've ever asked for is average. They have yet to deliver.

It's not the worst job in the history of aviation.


However...

We do have the worst health insurance and worst retirement of any major airline...and some regionals. The worst....yes I said it.

Our peers are all paying north of $200/hr for an A320 Captain. We're at $167. That includes bankrupt American by the way. The American guys are coming out of bankruptcy with a 16% B Fund. How's that 401K working out for you?

And as long as they keep hiring people like you who satisfied with mediocrity, they have no reason to deliver it.

Don't believe me? Join a committee and sit across the table from these people.


AVERAGE....it's ALL we've ever asked for.

 

[linepilot]

Smart pilots would have prevented all of that from happening.

 

[B6Busdriver]

STOP MAKING SENSE!!!! Stick to the plan man. JetBlue is the worst job in the history of aviation!!! They have slave masters sitting on the jumpseats with whips. Get your story right!

What is this plan you are referring to? More made up nonsense by the no voting crowd. Reality is very difficult for the BOB.

 

[MikeSF340]

What is this plan you are referring to? More made up nonsense by the no voting crowd. Reality is very difficult for the BOB.

Repeating the same things over and over and over isn't going to change anything. IMHO there are only two things that will change how this place does buisness. 1. A CBA ( I sent in my card) or 2. Pilots are leaving at such a rate they have to ground airplanes. I think both are a good possibility over the next 2 years. Constantly bitching and pointing out the obvious does nothing and only detracts from what we are trying to accomplish.