Jetblue just today announced 10/hr increases in pay for the E190 FO's and 4/hr (I think) for the Capt.'s effective January of 07. This is on top of the bonuses the E190 pilots recieved: not certain what they are for exactly but it was 250/mo AND 5 hours of "premium" pay (1.5 times pay rate) for each month of the last 6 months on 2006 a guy was qualified on the E190.

What airline in the past two decades has ever increased pay without a contract negotiation fight or given a "sorry we screwed up" bonus?

So if you take employment with JB you'll not only have a 2-4 year upgrade (conservatively speaking... at the moment new hires are looking at only 2 years even with the change in aircraft orders) but making 47 or 51 dollars/hr as a 1st year pilot, no probation, 9 hours of paid time off each month allocated to whatever you want it for- vacation, sick time, etc..., the ability to SELL back up to 25 percent of that "PTO bank" every Dec., profit sharing (yes none for those guys this year but lets see what happens next year), no loss of 2% of your pay towards union dues (wether you like them or not), new equipment, definite expansion and oh- btw- there have only been 4 guys fired (out of 1600) and that had nothing to do with the contract... I dunno...I can honestly say that if I didn't have serious seniority already I'd go there or SWA- they seem to be the only two in my book that are doing things right for now.

I've read a buddy's contract and, as a former contract negotiator, I didn't see anything there that would be a negative (unless you were planning ahead of time to screw a company or you thought you deserved 250k/yr for flying 15hrs/mo heh).

By the way, if any of you are truly unhappy there, (although I seriously question if the thread originator is actually a JB employee or just someone pretending) I sincerely hope you leave JB and find yourself someplace that makes you happy and give my JB friends one more seniority slot.

heh- just the thoughts from someone that actually KNOWS people there and has READ the contract.