Realistic
I signed up for the company that up until recently was hyping the following:
1. Annual pay based upon 90 hours a month every month.
2. Growth that would make reserve a brief inconvenience.
3. The most flexible schedules in the industry.
4. Scheduling practices that bring humanity back to air travel.
5. Stock options that would make us all wealthy.
6. Profit sharing that would make up for the shortfall in base pay.
7. Health care coverage that would IMPROVE once we grew.
8. A pay and benefits system that would seek to mirror SWA.
9. A West Coast base.
I hope for the sake of our interviewies and new-hires we've begun to tell the truth. My expectations were not met. That's OK, we just have to roll up our sleeves and start by filling out those surveys.
What will the pilots who come after us say if we were to be successful at blending the pay rates, bringing our pay system back to an industry standard slope, and putting the focus back on real dollars instead of the possibility of dollars some where in the happy future?
"Thank you."


Realistic:
I think you are listening to lounge and cockpit gossip saying what we all would like and not what the company says we have or will have. If/when any of the 1 – 7 were stated by persons in authority at JB what was the context and what was the airline economy when they were made. One of the things that makes JB a company that will last is flexibility. We as a group may not like where the industry is going right now but if you are in it for the career (long run) I think we/you will prosper.

I do concede #’s 8 & 9.
Al S did allude to a pilot pay scale favorably comparable to SWA and we do have a west coast base. Now whether you are senior enough to hold it is another story. I do however, believe there will be more west coast availability in the probably not to near future.

As long as we all continue to pull in the same direction JB the airline will succeed.