Originally Posted by
ockham
What part of having formal jumpseat agreements is so bad. The way I understand their problem is that they really do not want to fill the seats with people from airlines that they feel their own people will not use. In a conversation with Eos it was stated that he is more than willing to sign any agreement if it would help one crewmember get home, but that he really did not want to enter into agreements with just everybody, and potentially knock the jumpseater from let's say JetBlue or some other carrier that he knows his crews use all the time, because the seats were already taken.
When a new airline starts up, they don't 'pick and choose' what companies THEY want on THEIR reciprocal jumpseat list; that's not how its done. They open their doors and seats to all Part 121 pilots in exchange for establishing reciprocal agreements. It has nothing to do with punishing EOS pilots, who I'm happy to take; it has everything to do with following industry standard protocols and opening up their seats, or risk being removed from other carrier lists.