Originally Posted by RedeyeAV8r

The thing most non-union pilots forget is that jumpseat privileges are NEGOTIATED. Delta (for example) did not even have access to jumpseats on their own airline until it was negotiated into their contract. And to get it, they had to give something up.

For a jetBlue (or any other non-union) pilot to assume or claim a "right" to a cockpit jumpseat is ludicrous at best. Especially when the degradation of wages and benefits in the entire profession is essentially driven down by the presence of people who work in a non-union shop voluntarily.