Originally Posted by
Otterbox
…JetBlues pilot group accepted a 3% pay raise for a 10 year deal that gave ~30% of its focus city and almost all of its future international flying away to AA...
Originally Posted by
I was inverted
while I’m no fan of the NEA nor of LOA17 that gave scope relief, that’s not exactly what the agreement is. JetBlue actually has a net positive number of slots in LGA (by a large margin) and JFK, and gained flying from AA from the deal.
You are both correct.
To be more accurate, LOA 17 says that JetBlue CAN give 30% of int’l and focus-city flying to AA.
However, ALPA and the company assured pilots “They have absolutely no intentions of ever doing that. And that’s why it MUST be part of the deal.”