VIL’s were negotiators for the purpose of reducing staffing during an extremely difficult period. The intent was to reduce staffing at ALL bases.

jetblue is now trying to use VIL’s to adjust random staffing at random bases to recover from their own inept scheduling, displacement and downgrades. This was not the intent.

If the company wants to offer VIL’s to all bases in the same manner as AVL’s then the union would agree.

Agreed the union needs to communicate this concept better but F- - k jetblue. This staffing issue is solely of their own doing and it’s not the unions job to randomly fix it when the VIL is not a benefit OR available
to all pilots in seniority order.