All,
I do hope we can keep things professional, factual, and fraternal. And I would be dissapointed to see things degenerate into a jetBlue bashing session, or worse, a pilot bashing forum.
This pilot group could use some unity.
I hope that the pilots who are happy with their situation will be patient and tolerant with those of us who feel that things are a little off kilter.
Nothing can be wittled down to a sound bite.
Pay Inequality - Shrinking Benefits - Scheduling Shenanigans - FAR Loopholes - Staffing Illusions - Committee Fiefdoms - Vapor Stock - Etc.
These are all complicated subjects with arguments that can be made from many different angles.
None of these things makes JetBlue a bad airline. We're growing fast and people are doing what people do.
We have a right to be vigilant and to speak up when we see something we don't like. But we should do it in a respectful manner or we will never be taken seriously.
Why did I push for this board?
Because having these issues discussed by WE THE PILOTS in a public forum is a very powerful motivator. It SHOULD be anonymous and it SHOULD be public.
Private hasn't worked.
I too have written the scheduling committee, Bushy, the White Papers, Al, and my Chief Pilot. I have never gotten an answer that made sense. In some cases I've gotten no reply what-so-ever. And, in many cases I was given a "go away and fly your airplane" smoke screen. A few answers were just downright incompetent.
I've spoken up at pocket sessions. Lately, anything confrontrational just gets the boys from Kew wound up. The last discussion I listened to with D.N. he stated, "the pay is what it is. If you guys decide to do something collectively then I guess that's you're perogative."
The committees and the people in management have their hands on the reigns of my career and thus my family's well-being.
This board is MY chosen vehicle for keeping a spotlight on their decisions.
Fly Safe,
Realistic