Originally Posted by
Bluedriver
You are so dishonest. If the 321 pays more, the pairings will be analyzed, bid and awarded in seniority order, just like 24 hour Aruba overnights. Are 24 hour Aruba overnights evenly distributed amongst the pilots? You are so dishonest and manipulating. And we are supposed to trust you?
As far as trying to improve pilots pay, you are trying to improve SOME pilots pay, while distracting energy, time and FOCUS away from improving our overall pay and benefits by pursuing an industry nonstandard pay rate for a minority of airbus pilots.
Dishonest? No.
What you don't understand (and I'm not picking on you) is how scheduling works at Jetblue. At a real airline your point may be valid but here not at all.
Schedules at jetblue are created through a pairing optimizer. The data that is input by the scheduling committee is strictly controlled to lower costs or by their terms most efficient. The routing of the aircraft is wholly controlled by the marketing department. There is no input from flight ops on when, where or how an aircraft is routed. In fact, the scheduling committee no longer has the ability to force flying into the co-bases. By doing so they would negatively affect CASM. Taking it a step further Jetblue is forcing more flying to reserves in order to reduce line pilot flying. Please email the scheduling committee if you would like.
Back to my original point there is no reason why a larger aircraft shouldn't pay more if a smaller aircraft pays less.