Originally Posted by Rightseat Ballast

Jet Blue DOES hire RAH pilots, even the inexperienced ones. As an example, one of my new hire classmates at RAH was hired after 1 year, having never sat left seat. He had some SAAB time as well, but no PIC time in that aircraft either.

RAH has not set a payrate for the E190 yet. How do you know that it will be less than Jet Blue? In all likelihood, it will be lower than Jet Blue, but not by a margin that will make Jet Blue management run to have RAH fly E190's for them.

The way the fatigue and sickness policies were applied that resulted in the CLE accident were actually not system wide at RAH, but rather limited to the managers at Shuttle America. On the Republic certificate, I have never felt any such pressure. We are all one company, but we have different DO's, different CP's, and different POI's. The Shuttle side was being poorly run.

RAH has no involvement with Jet Blue, and Jet Blue does not deal with regional carriers except on a very limited and temporary basis (express Jet). RAH will not have any affiliation with Jet Blue.

Please use that grey stuff between your ears before you post here.