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#101
Easy transition from the 190, couldn't wait to get out of the Homewood Suites.
#102
Much appreciated, thanks
#103
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Aug 2007
Posts: 1,999
I think you meant to say you started on August 13th? It’s less than a month long program. Mine was from 9/1-9/27. Well designed program especially for transitions. For new-hires, we shall see.
For Striker: if you go to the Mint training portal. Search: A220. Scroll down and you might be able to see your name and schedule even if your training is several months away. If you just search your name, you won’t know until a month or two prior.
#104
I think you meant to say you started on August 13th? It’s less than a month long program. Mine was from 9/1-9/27. Well designed program especially for transitions. For new-hires, we shall see.
For Striker: if you go to the Mint training portal. Search: A220. Scroll down and you might be able to see your name and schedule even if your training is several months away. If you just search your name, you won’t know until a month or two prior.
For Striker: if you go to the Mint training portal. Search: A220. Scroll down and you might be able to see your name and schedule even if your training is several months away. If you just search your name, you won’t know until a month or two prior.
Oh my bad.....started July 13th, LOE was AUGUST 9th.
For reference, My line check was September 3rd. Waited almost a month for OE. Then waited another month to start working on CKS. Because of the difficulty getting everyone done with 6 airplanes expect a second line check right away to extend you out to 150 days.
YMMV.
#105
I think you meant to say you started on August 13th? It’s less than a month long program. Mine was from 9/1-9/27. Well designed program especially for transitions. For new-hires, we shall see.
For Striker: if you go to the Mint training portal. Search: A220. Scroll down and you might be able to see your name and schedule even if your training is several months away. If you just search your name, you won’t know until a month or two prior.
For Striker: if you go to the Mint training portal. Search: A220. Scroll down and you might be able to see your name and schedule even if your training is several months away. If you just search your name, you won’t know until a month or two prior.
#107
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2019
Posts: 968
Depends what aircraft. The 190, a few months both bases. BOS Airbus about 3 years. Kennedy, maybe a year and a half ish? Same first year pay, so you could get a line on the 190 pretty quick, and then transition to the Bus for year 2-3.
#108
On Reserve
Joined APC: Jun 2021
Posts: 11
The Ugly truth of newhire life at JetBlue…
To begin with, the training pay is really low, maybe the lowest in the industry, I’m aware of several regionals where you would make more money while in training than you do at JetBlue. The training pay is $2,000/month BEFORE taxes and benefits, which means if you are putting your family on your medical benefits your paychecks will be around $500 twice a month.
They tell you to expect six weeks of this but they have really bitten off more than they can chew down in Orlando… the first thing I found out when I got down there is that classes ahead of me were experiencing sever training delays. They are short on instructors and the sims go down for MX. Despite this they keep shoving classes of 50 pilots through every other week. We had one guy in our class who was awarded the 220 get sent home for a month. We had several guys on rolling cancelations for 3 weeks.
Once that’s all over you’d expect them to switch you to line pay no problem… and you’d be wrong. Despite the fact that they made you wait 12 weeks to complete a background check before giving you a class date, despite the fact that you’ve been on property for 3 months, and despite the fact that the CBA clearly states once a pilot has competed LOE they cutover to line pay… this is not happening. Payroll is aware we have completed LOE but they still have not completed our paperwork so they are still paying us training pay, but don’t worry they will back pay us! (Merry Christmas…) The union is aware but they tell us there’s nothing they can do and that a grievance would take too long, “by the time we made it to arbitration you will have already been paid”
So if you take the job and come here, when they make you sit in that auditorium and tell you we are all one big family. Take it from me, they don’t give a **** about you….
They tell you to expect six weeks of this but they have really bitten off more than they can chew down in Orlando… the first thing I found out when I got down there is that classes ahead of me were experiencing sever training delays. They are short on instructors and the sims go down for MX. Despite this they keep shoving classes of 50 pilots through every other week. We had one guy in our class who was awarded the 220 get sent home for a month. We had several guys on rolling cancelations for 3 weeks.
Once that’s all over you’d expect them to switch you to line pay no problem… and you’d be wrong. Despite the fact that they made you wait 12 weeks to complete a background check before giving you a class date, despite the fact that you’ve been on property for 3 months, and despite the fact that the CBA clearly states once a pilot has competed LOE they cutover to line pay… this is not happening. Payroll is aware we have completed LOE but they still have not completed our paperwork so they are still paying us training pay, but don’t worry they will back pay us! (Merry Christmas…) The union is aware but they tell us there’s nothing they can do and that a grievance would take too long, “by the time we made it to arbitration you will have already been paid”
So if you take the job and come here, when they make you sit in that auditorium and tell you we are all one big family. Take it from me, they don’t give a **** about you….
#109
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2014
Posts: 203
To begin with, the training pay is really low, maybe the lowest in the industry, I’m aware of several regionals where you would make more money while in training than you do at JetBlue. The training pay is $2,000/month BEFORE taxes and benefits, which means if you are putting your family on your medical benefits your paychecks will be around $500 twice a month.
They tell you to expect six weeks of this but they have really bitten off more than they can chew down in Orlando… the first thing I found out when I got down there is that classes ahead of me were experiencing sever training delays. They are short on instructors and the sims go down for MX. Despite this they keep shoving classes of 50 pilots through every other week. We had one guy in our class who was awarded the 220 get sent home for a month. We had several guys on rolling cancelations for 3 weeks.
Once that’s all over you’d expect them to switch you to line pay no problem… and you’d be wrong. Despite the fact that they made you wait 12 weeks to complete a background check before giving you a class date, despite the fact that you’ve been on property for 3 months, and despite the fact that the CBA clearly states once a pilot has competed LOE they cutover to line pay… this is not happening. Payroll is aware we have completed LOE but they still have not completed our paperwork so they are still paying us training pay, but don’t worry they will back pay us! (Merry Christmas…) The union is aware but they tell us there’s nothing they can do and that a grievance would take too long, “by the time we made it to arbitration you will have already been paid”
So if you take the job and come here, when they make you sit in that auditorium and tell you we are all one big family. Take it from me, they don’t give a **** about you….
They tell you to expect six weeks of this but they have really bitten off more than they can chew down in Orlando… the first thing I found out when I got down there is that classes ahead of me were experiencing sever training delays. They are short on instructors and the sims go down for MX. Despite this they keep shoving classes of 50 pilots through every other week. We had one guy in our class who was awarded the 220 get sent home for a month. We had several guys on rolling cancelations for 3 weeks.
Once that’s all over you’d expect them to switch you to line pay no problem… and you’d be wrong. Despite the fact that they made you wait 12 weeks to complete a background check before giving you a class date, despite the fact that you’ve been on property for 3 months, and despite the fact that the CBA clearly states once a pilot has competed LOE they cutover to line pay… this is not happening. Payroll is aware we have completed LOE but they still have not completed our paperwork so they are still paying us training pay, but don’t worry they will back pay us! (Merry Christmas…) The union is aware but they tell us there’s nothing they can do and that a grievance would take too long, “by the time we made it to arbitration you will have already been paid”
So if you take the job and come here, when they make you sit in that auditorium and tell you we are all one big family. Take it from me, they don’t give a **** about you….
#110
On Reserve
Joined APC: Jun 2021
Posts: 11
Trust me, I had no pretense, but they force feed the blue juice pretty hard those first three days and I’ve NEVER worked anywhere that I had to beg for my paycheck like this. One of the guys in my class said it’s like being back at the regionals. I disagree… the regionals never treated me this bad.
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