kingair35

If you have 3+ years of seniority and live in base, this place IMHO is pretty descent.

Other than that... avoid

402DRVR

To echo what a few have said. If you can live in base, and if that base really is Boston then its a pretty good place to be. But no doubt it could be, and needs to be a lot better. I'm happy working here as I live near enough to Boston to drive and have some good seniority, 4+ years.

On the bus I avoid most red-eyes and get weekends and holidays off. YMMV.

I think we will eventually get a contract. When is another question. If you are going to commute anyway, or live near NY, then it just makes sense to go to one of the legacies if you can get it.

Papa Bear

If you live in base, excited about having QOL then being an FO at Blow Jet is going to workout.
If you want to be a Airbus captain, love Queens NY and have nothing better to do , then BlowJet is going to work out...
If you don’t mind being paid 70% or less than your peers...man do we have a deal for you.
Come on down..

Down2Wire

Just received an invite for the “on demand video interview”

Anybody know what questions are asked and is this a live video interview with HR and or chief pilots?

Any help you could provide would be appreciated

Thanks in advance

BeatNavy

1) do you like to sacrifice your pay to work here?
2) do you like culture bucks more than USD?
3) do you like to perform janitorial duties on airplanes?
4) are you inexperienced enough that you aren’t a flight risk for a legacy if they call?
5) do you live in Boston?
6) do you like working more than your peers to subsidize the highest profit margins in the industry (that you and your (lack of) profit sharing won’t see)?
7) are you cool with undisclosed amounts (“millions and millions”) of money getting funneled to JetSuite x, potato farms, and other worthless tech ventures that add no value to the company?
8) are you cool with management that votes in $1.25 billion in stock buybacks to line the pockets of the BoD/C Suite while adding no value to the company, while refusing to pay market rate to you, the pilot?
9) do you look forward to working for the worst operated airline, to include regionals in that metric, in the US? (Instead of investing millions into the operation, its siphoned off for useless garbage like 7/8).
10) why do you want to work for an airline run by interns?

I think that about covers it.

slimothy

Does this strike you as a “helpful” thread?

PotatoChip

How would it be a live video with CP and HR if it were "on demand"?
Can you take it whenever you want?

175driver

Hello!!!


At low seniority.

I heard it is quite possible to get a reserve schedule that has all flying compressed into a block (with the mandatory 6th day off). Which allows 12 or more days off in one block... Using drop/swap/trade UTO/PTO as necessary.

I commute from Europe.


Is this correct?


Thanks

hilltopflyer

Yes it is.

queue

This is a very defeated pilot group. Many people here such as bozo are spouting false propaganda to make things seem better than they truly are. The truth is that we have a contract proposal on deck that is grossly substandard and will affect your quality of life if passed. Since you are quite an accomplished professional pilot, you should consider an airline where pilots respect themselves and they fight for pay and work rules. May I suggest Delta, where they will love someone of your accomplishment. Many people here are stuck in a regional mindset of begging for sloppy seconds. They are happy to get any table scraps. To them sacrifice means standing in an informational picket line in the freezing cold for a day. Anything harder than that and they give up. Because the pilot group is so defeated, they don't know any better and they won't fight for better pay and better rules. The TA that we have right now was not obtained through actual sacrifice. It is the result of a few low energy meetings. When we had our greatest opportunity to do an informational picket, namely at the shareholder meeting, our people chose to stand down because blue jet gave them some kind of carrot that they bit off on. As a result of their naivety and lack of expertise, we got a TA that is not leading in anyway whatsoever and trails everyone. This means that you're going to be working harder to make the same amount as your equals at other respectable airlines. And in order for you to even begin to approach the compensation of other airlines, you're going to trade for a lot of time that you would've had at home. As a military guy and contract guy, you spent a lot of time away from home and the last thing you want is to be an airline where you're going to be spending a lot of time away from home also but not making very much. There's a few vocal guys here who seem to defend the TA because they have special circumstances such as being staff pilots, live in base, or have high seniority.

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