Originally Posted by
Bluedriver
I actually did explain it, in my post above.
But I'll slow down.
Have you been reading message boards and talking with your fellow pilots? Have any on this board, or in person discussed concerns about?:
1. TA allows American to do up to 100% of international outside the Caribbean.
2. Maybe JB will just have AA do Europe.
3. Maybe JB will cancel the LRs.
Have you heard any pilots express any of these concerns over the last several days?
Now, the press release was more than just a seat. Look at the headline itself:
"
JetBlue Unveils Completely Reimagined Mint, ***Setting the Stage to Change the Transatlantic Market*** with Exceptional Experience, Competitive Fares".
This could have been announced 4 weeks ago, or 4 weeks from now. But they chose now, as voting is just about to open.
Is it a big deal? Nope. Is it coincidental timing? Only if you're a moron.
Fairly coincidental since this has been an open secret for the last 6 months... The soft product revamp was in advance of this. Many of us have worked at foreign carriers with awesome passenger products in the back yet were slaveship shops upfront. If any of our pilots are swayed one way or another by this announcement they are fools, it’s all about the language... who cares what flavored popcorners are served in the back.. it means nothing. Now the massive order of 220s in the middle of CBA voting, now that was no conspiracy and was meant very well to be a curveball. I don’t think the company foresaw the utter impotence the NC and MEC has projected in the past week for the rollout of the TA...... If the company wants to move ahead with this after (God willing) it is rejected, the Company will come back to the table. We need to demand a shorter duration, solid protections addressing all the issues our brothers and sisters have brought up and a paybump NOW or PS cut or something more. Only then I might entertain it.... anyone that is so squishy as to be swayed by a nice business class seat, well there is no hope for that individual!