Originally Posted by
Bluedriver
Isn't it always relative? Yes, it's historically good, but comparatively not great. And to hold the plug on an E190 in 2.5 years vs 6-9 months to hold a 737 at Delta probably also speaks to future seniority movement in that seat. To say nothing of the pay rate difference. So I think it is an important point of comparison.
300k a year sounds good, unless most of your peers make 400k. Then not so good. Relativity.
Didn't Delta "furlough" a bunch and then close to 2k(?) took early retirements in 2020. Plus they have a headwind of retirements over the next 10 years, plus trying to grow while retiring and filling the missing 2K pilots that left. We have people on the top end of the list with 15-20 years left, my guess is that a majority of the top 50% of our list has 15+ years left. I get being frustrated about upgrade times however comparing our supplemental bid to DAL and UAL's system bid is still kind of apples and oranges. 2021 system bid had a junior guy 11/19 hire get awarded captain. At that time was less than 2 years to be awarded a CA spot. Baring no covid, and early outs my guess is you would have never seen upgrade times at DAL go to a New hire, or UAL having unfilled spots. Unfortunately we simply do not have that kind of movement that the legacy carriers have right now. Along with that, the supplemental bid had 0 vacancies and 0 backfill on the 190 along with very upgrades compared to a year long system bid, barring no more issues my guess is growth continues for the 2022 system bid and upgrades stay around the 2 year mark which for Jetblue is historically low. 2.5 years is still better than it was pre-covid.