Originally Posted by
benzoate
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.
Good God, more confusion on your part. It doesn't matter HOW the pairings are made, the point is that after the pairings are made, the pilots, while bidding, will analyze the pairings for the most 321 hours (if the aircraft pays more, or for those with big egos), and bid those trips. They will bid trips that have the highest proportion of higher-paying 321 block hours, the same way senior guys bid 24 hour Aruba overnights or high credit day turns.
As far as a larger aircraft, the A320 is 50% larger than the E190. The A321 is 26% larger than the A320. So, by that metric alone, I guess you could ask for a 5% override to fly the A321, but frankly we have WAY bigger fish to fry than a 5% override for a small percentage of pilots. If anything, I would rather see an increase to ALL A320 pay rates because of the increase revenue from the 321, but EVEN THEN, WE HAVE MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO FIX IN OUR PAY AND BENEFITS PACKAGE THAN THAT.
Furthermore, our "smaller" aircraft that pays less is a completely different type, while our "larger" aircraft that you want more money for is a common type of A320, just stretched. That, in our industry, IS an important distinction. As I have said before, please tell every Alaska and Southwest pilot you see that their contract is CRAP because they don't pay more for the 800-900.....
You sir, are a dishonest, manipulative featherbedding fool. It is so transparent and obvious.