Originally Posted by
Boomer
Ask any JetBlue pilot if he guessed 5 years ago that… we’d be shrinking everywhere to concentrate on being American Airline’s regional of choice in JFK, we’d be buying Spirit, we’re parking/not parking/parking the 190s, and flying 321s to London. And that a major pandemic temporarily sent hundreds of pilots back to the right seat. And that we’d lose 300 pilots a year to Delta and United.
I bet nobody bet everything on that guess. Heck, five years ago I bet nobody could even guess our 190 attrition rate or our 220 acceptance rate.
5 years ago I would never have guessed we would be so over staffed in almost every seat and almost every base this severely either. If I would have foreseen this I would have been filling out my DL app then. I chose to stay because of the slim staffing model we traditionally have had that created opportunities to make up the gap in compensation with DL and UAL with Premium time / VDA / RSA opportunities. O well I guess I sit around grow a beard and worry about landing currency next month.