Originally Posted by
Southerner
As far as the "it's not needed" argument goes, this program isn't needed now. But it may be needed someday. And if it's needed it takes 4 years to spool it up. That's an eternity in a staffing timeline. Why wait until it is needed to start it?
You know what else isn't needed, but we do anyway? Vets in Blue. We have lots of applicants independent of that. We should axe that program since "it isn't needed."
We should just stop hiring anyone other than regional guys. We have plenty of them applying to meet the demand, so why hire military and corporate guys? They aren't needed.
OR, we can all appreciate that we all took different paths to get here, and stop being jerks to each other.
I don't not agree with either of your post, and I don't really care to explain why.... again. I will comment on your military and vets in blue. The vets in blue is to attract military pilots. Being such a small airline most military guys don't know anything about jetBlue and they only focus on the big 3. Military guys have proven they can fly complicated airplanes in the left seat or solo. They are a proven product. Corporate guys come with a world of experience. If you want to reduce the value of this job and make sure we hire people that will never leave than yes, keep hiring regional FOs with no PIC and gateway 7 guys. In that line of thinking why pay us more, let the qualified guys move on to better paying places, there is always a regional FO that wants to work here. Since he won't be able to get on at the airlines that pay better, because those airlines are hiring military guys and corporate guys, tons of them, he will be stuck here at low wages. Do you work directly for B.S.?