B6 or AA
07-14-2022 | 04:04 AM
#31
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Dec 2019
Posts: 1,318
Likes: 0
07-14-2022 | 05:51 AM
#32
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,088
Likes: 12
07-14-2022 | 06:01 AM
#33
Line Holder
Joined: Oct 2010
Posts: 1,991
Likes: 187
Yeah, I think the pay/work rules situation is close enough that it makes more sense to look at it from a BOS seniority and future of the base standpoint. BOS is like our PHX base - I don't think it's going anywhere, but I wouldn't count on any growth either. If we were talking about the NYC base I think AA makes sense, but for BOS there's probably more eventual upside at JetBlue.
07-14-2022 | 07:20 AM
#34
SDQ Base Chief
Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 6,089
Likes: 48
From: 320 CA
https://i.postimg.cc/65dgt9QX/Jetblue-CApay.png
https://i.postimg.cc/T3fSPZyW/Jetblue-FOpay.png
07-14-2022 | 07:24 AM
#35
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Feb 2022
Posts: 385
Likes: 0
From: A320CA
07-14-2022 | 07:51 AM
#36
Line Holder
Joined: Oct 2017
Posts: 436
Likes: 14
We are about to lever up to the gills to buy NK so I wouldn't act so superior. Our management spent the 2010s buying back stock and blowing cash on tech startups to nowhere while NK had their eye on the ball. Now we are going to eat years of seniority and have a crummy balance sheet for decades, while NK investors will make out like bandits.
But hey, we got a 3% pay bump by selling scope so we can talk ******* to AA pilots about rates for a little while...
As for the original poster. This pilot group loves to work for less. Our upgrades are going to be measured in decades after this merger. Go where there is movement and the pilots have a spine.
Last edited by MainlineFlyer; 07-14-2022 at 08:01 AM.
07-14-2022 | 07:54 AM
#37
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 3,274
Likes: 55
From: 190 captain and “Pro-pilot”
07-14-2022 | 08:14 AM
#38
The REAL Bluedriver
Joined: Sep 2011
Posts: 6,935
Likes: 0
From: Airbus Capt
Guys, AA's work rules suck, today. But that is possibly, and likely, one contract away from fixing most or all of those work rule differences. They can fix work rules and pay rates in a few months. Their management also just offered "Delta like(ish) profit sharing. JB's management said profit sharing was a "non-starter, and JB pilot currently don't have a functional profit sharing plan and JB can't change it's narrow-body only, young pilot group and few retirements dynamic anytime soon. And as others have said, the JB balance sheet may not look so good soon. The answer to the guys question isn't clear cut. None of us know how the next 5-10-20 years are gonna go.
07-14-2022 | 08:21 AM
#39
Line Holder
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 218
Likes: 0
From: Hack pilot
Guys, AA's work rules suck, today. But that is possibly, and likely, one contract away from fixing most or all of those work rule differences. They can fix work rules and pay rates in a few months. Their management also just offered "Delta like(ish) profit sharing. JB's management said profit sharing was a "non-starter, and JB pilot currently don't have a functional profit sharing plan and JB can't change it's narrow-body only, young pilot group and few retirements dynamic anytime soon. And as others have said, the JB balance sheet may not look so good soon. The answer to the guys question isn't clear cut. None of us know how the next 5-10-20 years are gonna go.
