See, this gets pretty frustrating. Some of us live in another airline's hubs because our current employer has a base there. Not every United Express pilot based in Chicago wants to work for United or stay in Chicago. Many are willing to relocate for the next job.

I had to answer for my current street address in every job fair and it got very frustrating. It didn't seem to matter that I was originally from somewhere else and was willing to move. I understand JetBlue's concern but they are going to screen out a lot of good people if they are going to be that simplistic. As someone else said the COO really needs to look at why people aren't staying, and I bet it has less to do with where people live than he thinks.