Hey Non-Union Gman:

Glad you love life over there at People's Express, Part Deux.

However...we realize...and I hope you guys realize...because you have no union to protect you, you are the "lab rats" for experimental trial-balloon assaults by managements seeking to gut duty-day rules, among other basic safety thresholds...right?

You guys are all happy...but, your Rose Colored Glasses are beginning to embolden corner-cutting ATA management initiatives and thus endangering all of our safety as well as that of the travelling public:

what defense do you mount for JetBlue pilots allowing themselves to be used in the illegal "Transcon-Sleep-Starvation Caper" where JetBlue--without telling their passengers, broke FAA regs on crew rest? Clearly, this is a collaborative Airline Transport Association effort being "run through" JetBlue, seeking to establish new cockpit duty-day rigs that exceed the 8-hour max.

A "stand-up" all nighter to the west coast against the time zone with two pilots? Why would any pilot interested in basic safety allow his management to run experimental testing on their cockpit crews on this insane sleep-deprivation goosechase?

You guys lead with your chin in your "just happy to be here" simplistic brainwash...and it puts us all in harms way, IMO.

Jetblaster