Originally Posted by
CincoDeMayo
Got that Stockholm Syndrome.
“well yeah they ask us to clean planes, but we really don’t, only a few guys do. They say they can take our pass travel but they haven’t”
”Well yeah we have a program where they can call us after 4 sick calls, but it’s not a problem, they usually don’t”
I guess you are missing the point. None of this should be anywhere associated with the group flying the pointy end of the plane. Someone said non rev priority isn’t even based on seniority? Let me guess, “hardly the standard”.
I guess it’s indoctrination, the blue juice is strong. Don’t get me wrong, we have a bunch at NK that thinks everything is horrible here and want that extra $25/hr at JBLU; I just don’t think they know what they will be giving up when they do.
Spirit is dysfunctional, no doubt, but they leave us alone. Guys will miss that way more than they will enjoy the extra $25/hr
Cinco and I sometimes have our differences but not on this subject. It doesn’t matter what USUALLY happens, if it isn’t in the CBA (or JCBA) AND ENFORCED you are totally unprotected from it eventually happening. And a change of management can come in a heartbeat specially when your stock price is $7.40 and your capitalization is less than $2.5 billion.
You could be working for the most benign management in the world today and in a few months be working for a latter day Hulas Canodias. If we don’t lock in good working conditions in the JCBA we are all idiots. Not a tragedy for the FOs in this environment perhaps - there are a lot of opportunities out there - but for those with a decade of seniority who will be taking a huge leap backwards going elsewhere a potential disaster.