I’d say JFK is most junior on the bus. There are folks in JFK with a line at about the 11 month mark. BOS is a few months behind at probably 14 months to a line. I would not go to JFK just to get the line a few months earlier though. In contrast I have a buddy on the 190 in BOS who has a line in February right at the year mark.
As for the airline itself here is my $.02 with about 18 months on property...
-if you have other, better options then take them. If you are stuck at a crappy place and JB is a little less crappy then by all means come on over. It isn’t a bad place to wait for a better option. Be prepared though $53/hr first year and you will not break guarantee on reserve. Four people from my indoc class have already moved on and most of the junior FOs I talk to have their apps out.
-I do think that we will have to strike or at least vote to strike before anything gets done. My bigger fear is that by the time that happens any good will that was left in the pilot group will be long gone and never come back. I think that the company really believes they can screw us around all they want and when the CBA finally happens that they can snap their fingers and everyone will be a big happy family again. That is not going to happen in my opinion because people are becoming very bitter.
-I think if we do strike it won’t last a week. The company just can’t afford to let that happen.
-I was at a crappy regional for a few months before coming here and this place seems to be ran by the same idiots that were running that place. We had a winter storm on 12/23 that was predicted in every weather model for a week but nobody thought to call in people to man the ice trucks. We were dead in the water that morning. This is just another day at JB.
-most of the pilot group are great people. I have yet to fly with a single person I wouldn’t want to fly with again. Although I did fly with a captain who said he thought he was already paid enough. Not a bad guy but he is at the top of the food chain and has lost sight of what is going on in the real world.