Really, me on bp spreading BS? I am? And you know that how? So my 111 posts since I joined in April of last year is a lot of naysaying? In fact I have posted 3 times there since Jan 1st.
Go back and read all of my jetblue posts on this website -- I bet you find a fair amount of both pro and anti-jb (although I would consider my anti-jb rhetoric to be constructive criticism).
I ask you though, you really think you are doing the company any good by living in denial? I only ask this after my 5 hour flight back to Virginia on the commute home today. Wow what a f-ed up operation we have. De-icing was a real treat and I can tell that we are on the right track (not). The good news is that the reporter sitting in the back raised hell, took pictures and copious notes -- should I short some stock or not? Yes, this really happened today, btw -- no BS here.
You really need to take your crap and sell it elsewhere. Thanks to JBPA for getting the point. The funny thing is that JUST TODAY on bp.com one of our fellow pilots posted a recurrent update about the February attritions, the hiring issues and 190 reliability among other things. Yet you come on here and project this false perception of me as if your reality is somehow better than mine. The trip I just flew was yet again another exercise in incompetence and drama, getting an Airbus outta EWR for example is like herding kittens on ice skates. I have to question the reality that you have crafted for yourself or maybe the purity of the drugs that you are snorting.
Yet, you know we do indeed have good people here and we have great products, but that is all lost in the shuffle when some of our gate agents, sys ops, crazy FAs and weak-teet captains/FOs drop the ball time and time again. The evidence that we are stumbling is right there in front of your face yet you act like I somehow speak falsely about jb. One only has to look at the latest per diem email to see the cracks in our company.
Man, I wish jb would get its act together. I really do and I have been consistent in that opinion for a long time (again, ref my posts). I have a decent amount of seniority here, I love the airplane, most of the captains I have flown with are cool as can be, many of the FAs are nice people and once in a blue moon I have a completely normal trip with no drama, no delays, no F/Ups and I can then see jb for the great company it could become. But just because we promote John Ross to SysOps for example doesn't mean any changes will turn the ship around. We have a lot of qualified and motivated people -- but does David Neeleman listen to their advice and give them the resources to do their job? Does he foster a sense of accountability and responsibility within each department? Will he stop bringing in college interns and retail sales divas to run Crew Scheduling, Services, Airport Ops etc etc?
I think this company is a grand experiment. Try to get people to rally around some high falooting ideal (bringing humanity back to air travel for example) in the hopes that they will work hard and for less pay/benefits in order to further the cause. Hey I bought into it too until my military experience finally won out and I couldn't reconcile the fact that despite the preponderance of easily identifiable problems at jb there was no real effort made to craft long term solutions in order to ensure continued success. JB has to SPEND money to MAKE money -- if they did maybe they wouldn't have been walking around the airport during the V-day massacre using paper and pencil to track pilots and fill airplanes.
But back to the thread topic: NO I DON'T BELIEVE IN SPOT INTERVIEWS. And you shouldn't either. It says a lot about the interest in jb and even more about the dire need to fill classes to stem ever escalating pilot losses and shortages. Just check out the reserve coverage in Flica or the constant need for RSAs for more info.
Quality guys? Like that dude I saw commuting on Comair with no tie on, collar unbuttoned to the wind? Or maybe the guys with their backpacks slung over their blazers/leather jackets? They all do have wonderfully gel-ified hair though.
So to recap my point click: You shut your mouth when you're talking to me!
