They are, and most are great pilots and know how to fly point A to B very well. Like you said they work their asses off, so do corporate pilots, so do military pilots. I have a problem with someone with less experience getting hired in front of them because the company wants to hire people that CANT leave. First is was regional FOs with no PIC. These guys have never set the left seat. There is a difference in one with 8K hours that never upgraded due to timing and one with 3k hours that just skipped ahead of everyone. JetBlue should hire the most qualified. But hiring no PIC 3K hour regional pilots and the gateway 7 instead of the thousands of qualified pilots out there because they are scared the competitive guys will leave is something us as pilots should not want. The guys with good resumes are not coming here right now. Ask around what a new hire class at delta or fedex looks like. It's not a regional pilot with no PIC and 3k hours. If JetBlue wants to keep competitive pilots from leaving than pay us more. Can you really be proud of the work it took to get here and the experience you have when you find out a guy ahead of you or behind you got hired at 1500 hours and no Jet time. Pay us better than industry standard and we will never have a problem getting pilots. I think management is getting prepared how to scrape dudes from the bottom of the barrel, when they should be trying to get them from the top.