Originally Posted by
ockham
I think you are short changing all the hard work done by all the jumpseat folks at all the airlines that have worked so hard to make the present state of jumpseating what it is today. Each one of the pilot groups have fought a long uphill battle in some cases and even had to lose some ground on other issues at the table to secure jumpseats. My personal thanks goes out to all those individuals and from what is being said it seems that the Eos pilot group is fighting some of those same battles and indeed making progress.
My suggestion is how about backing off and letting these folks fight their battles.
They've had 2 years, as of this summer. Plenty of time.
The difference between EOS and Delta is huge; DL was a major with worldwide routes. EOS has only 1 route, JFK-STN. EOS needs jumpseats to get their pilots to work, but almost noone uses them to commute. That is what I was referring to when I said this is not a ONE-way street.