Commute from Memphis
 

Anyone at JetBlue commute from Memphis? I’m stuck here for another year and a half before I can move. Looking at JetBlue as my next step.

Thanks!

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Do they have flights to a base that are consistent?

they have flights everywhere almost every night except for weekends.

FedEx goes just about anywhere from Memphis, however I think what the last post might have been trying to say is, apply to FedEx. Living in Memphis, I’d be all over trying to get in that door.

I’m far from being eligible for FedEx. 200ish 121, 1000 turbine SIC. 1700 total.

I’m thinking JetBlue in 8 or so months. Probably too little time atm

There’s a BOS CA that commutes from MEM. Talked to him on the crew bus a few times. If you are based in JFK or BOS commuting on FedEx from MEM would be a piece of cake.

How many days off are reserve and junior line holders getting in BOS and JFK?

he started driving to nashville sometimes.

Flew with a CA years ago that commuted from MEM. There are multiple flights a day MEM-FK. She said the ride on FedEx was reliable, but the big PITA was getting from the JFK cargo hub over to the terminal. Sitting reserve you'd just need a cab/Uber to the crash pad unless you already had a trip. American & Delta can also get you to LGA. If we end up buying Spirit, MEM would probably be added to JetBlue's route map.

DO NOT commute for this airline. It’s miserable enough living in base.

You should rethink your line of work if you’re truly miserable living in base. Can it be frustrating? Yes of course. But miserable? Come on now. And not for nothing, but we make the most money when this place is falling apart. It’s all relative homie.

This. FedEx is an easy commute if you can deal with the hours. In JFK, there’s a free bus that runs on a loop between FEDEX and Federal Circle, where you can catch the Airtrain to the terminal.

in Bos there is a bus that will take you straight to the Jetblue terminal.

How commutable is reserve? Minimum days off on reserve? What are the the “on call” hours for short call?

What about the lines. How commutable are junior lines? Minimum days off when holding a line? If it’s more then I’m getting now at a regional but not 100% commutable it might be the same QOL for me till I can move.

This is good to know. Then I just have to wait for the preflight van….🙄🤣

Fair enough. It has been a pretty miserable few months for me, though. Even as an in-base lineholder, I’m on revision F every week. Is the extra money helpful? Sure. Personally I’d rather just have a reliable schedule, though.

I mean, we’ve seen both Delta and American pilots picket recently over fatiguing schedules and reassignments (mostly AA). You’d run on-time more there so it would be more reliable, but not sure it would be sunshine and rainbows either. Moving to one of their bases would help obviously.

Of course there are problems everywhere. The question is, whose management do you trust to be more competent long term? Delta has issues, sure, but they’re not likely to last. Jetblue, as others have said, isn’t giving me a lot of faith in their ability to fix things. They’re talking about it now, at least, but talk is cheap, and a botched merger with Spirit could get *real* ugly.

I want B6 to be a destination, but with the way things are right now and the legacies hiring in droves, can one really make a good argument for staying? But yes, misery is relative, so don’t take my misery as actual fact. It’s just BS airline pilot misery. :p

I just can’t imagine the board letting Joanna run an airline nearly twice this size. It just can’t be. Being an attorney, I guess she’s suited to facilitate a merger/acquisition though.

She has certainly prepared JetBlue for an acquisition.

I think we are all in the same boat. Great job recognizing that "It's just BS airline pilot misery" my buddies at Delta are complaining about the same issues. Hopefully this talk pans out to some action but the last 12 years dosnt give me much faith. Pilots have been on here saying the same things they are now "why come here when there is no growth and no attrition." Well we've done nothing but grow (minus 2020) since I've been here and we are finally starting to see more then single digit retirements. I still enjoy going to work, mostly because of the crews I fly with but also the constant Eps/Primium pay/ VDA they keep throwing out there.

They literally just announced slower growth.

They announce pushing back orders and slowing growth every year. Nothing new with that announcement. Anyone on the line can see that we have over extended ourselves and have been behind the hiring curve for all work groups since last spring. Slowing down a little bit isn't a bad thing, summer still going to be crazy.

It is a bad thing, when you really consider the reasons. They slowed the growth for the rest of the year largely because of staffing, and largely because of pilot hiring/attrition. In addition, Robin clearly said on the conference call with Wall Street that this problem could continue for the foreseeable future/years.

Their big solution to pilot attraction/attrition/staffing is to try to hire more and "double down on culture", you know, because most pilots that leave JB are leaving because their isn't enough "culture". Facepalm.

Put it all together and you have less growth, slower seniority progression, will last for years, and their solution will make it worse, not better...

There's a word for that... Bad

As I said same slowing of growth as they say every year "sometimes with different wording" it's apparent we need a reset and it looks like we are getting one. This should allow for other work groups to catch up with hiring. I agree with you on the idiocracy of "doubling down on culture". That ship sailed years ago.

This…the are positioning themselves better and will resume. It needs a spark as well though, the brand is a bit tired looking after what we’ve all been through. Something big would be good.

Did you listen to the last JB conference call with Wall Street?

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No. Spill the Tea Bluedriver.

The point is this isn't the same old slowing of growth, they are not setting up for something better... This is different, something we haven't seen before. Per the call, they don't have enough pilots, and think they may not have enough pilots for the foreseeable future, possibly years. They can't get enough, train enough, and get enough to STAY. So they are having to slow the growth because of the pilot shortage.

And their big solution is to 'double down on culture".

This is something different, something we haven't seen before, and if you take them at their word, they intend to do nothing about it.

That's bad.

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Do you purposely make it "that bad"? It might not be enough until Schumer can't get a flight to ACK/ Graham can't get out of CHS (see, both sides of the aisle:D). Then it's "that bad" and at that point the government might allow just about anything...Big 3...or 4 getting one of the few dance partners left.

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