Originally Posted by
benzoate
With several friends in the pipeline to come here each has heard the very same commentary from me. Jetblue is a great intermediate step between your regional and a major. Even if you live in your regional base I believe your quality of life will be better at Jetblue. They have also heard all the spiel about this place being a cult. This has to be beaten into people because the initial experience at this airline will have you believing otherwise. Once out on the line the reality of what this job hits you over the head like a 2x4. This is why pilots like Southerner(no offfense) tend to side with the airline. The training environment at Jetblue is rare and you come out full of blue juice.
I flew the line here before I came to training, and I don't side with the airline. You guys just don't seem to understand nuance. There is a difference between liking to clean, and complying with company policy when non revving. That's just one example. I understand that the company has the right to set policies as they see fit. I don't take it personally that they want to run the airline that way. I choose to nonrev, so part of that choice is complying with the policy that, in a perfect world, would be different. But it ain't.
My frustration with some of the rhetoric on here is that JetBlue management very clearly wants a certain kind of airline. And you guys are mad that the airline they want is different from what you want/expect. You're frustration is centered around that. You want to be more like Delta. JetBlue management wants to be less like Delta.
So when I say that you should apply to Delta if that's the case, it's not because I'm being snarky. I'm being serious. We aren't that. We never will be that. I hope that our pay, work rules, and benefits more closely align after the CBA, but we will still be an airline run by a management that doesn't want to look like a legacy carrier. So why not go where you seem to desire to be? Even if we get an industry leading contract, you're still going to be annoyed at the company when they send out communications that are typical JetBlue. Don't you want to work somewhere that you agree with philosophically, deep down?
So as I've said before, you don't have to hate JetBlue to want a good CBA. If you do hate JetBlue, I don't believe a good CBA will fix that for you, because it isn't the current contract that you hate.
And with that gentlemen, I'm out. If you want to talk with me, send me a PM. I'll even buy you a beer when you come through MCO sometime.