Originally Posted by
Cloud5urfer
I usually stay out of this thread because of the amount of negativity present, but I just have to post this out of curiosity:
If we get a market rate contract, will the tunes change? Will stand-up PAs come back? Will we go the extra mile again? Or will this company always be a place that some love to hate?
As far as contract concerns, I implore everyone to go find a P2P volunteer (bright red badge backers) and get a real update on progress. This is all our careers, and it's important to stay up to date with facts not rumors.
Again, it's not negativity... it's realism. Realism so that prospective new hires know what they're getting themselves into, and it isn't anything like the image JetBlue likes to portray externally.
In any case, I think the answer is yes overall. We have a pilot group that is predisposed to go the extra mile, and I think when we feel we are compensated for doing such and have strong contractual protections against the company taking advantage of us in other ways, the tune of the group will change dramatically. (Hopefully not to the extreme of looking at dumpster diving in the cabin with anything other than utmost disgust.)