https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/3477897-post1.html

Wait a second. You’re a newhire, but have access to all the resignations? Interesting.

“I have access ark” and “no knew that senior” doesn’t make much sense. Learn to write. And yeah, I sent you the guy that left via PM. It’s not a secret. The other forum has a discussion on him, and his friend (another senior FLL CA) posted his reasons for leaving. But as a new guy, I guess you’re probably not on that forum?

Looks like that’ll just about cover the fly by’s. Dreambig/gibmaerd, do you even work at jetblue? You claim to be an insider/management but were just asking about training pay recently?

wtf are you talking about? Never claimed to be management or an insider. I said I have access and proved it by given a specific seniority number that put in a resignation last week. So those are 2 very different things. And as for his “pm”, it was of someone who retired lmao. Someone retiring is not someone leaving to United lmao. That’s the reason why I didn’t respond to him because it wasn’t worth it, as neither are you lmao. So you can kick rocks along with him.

You claimed to see all resignations, did you not? Anyway, odd flex from someone who either doesn’t work at jetblue yet or hasn’t even touched a sim in newhire training. And yeah, he “retired” early, meaning he gets to have retiree nonrev travel privileges because he met the years of service (17.6) + age (49) = 65 threshold. That’s about all that a blue “retirement” entails. He is still going to United.

Why would a 17 year Captain leave to start over anywhere? That’s idiotic. Unless he’s super wealthy, and just wants to continue to fly while living in base.

According to the other site and what I’ve heard separately, he doesn’t want to commute to terrible schedules anymore, doesn’t have a great feeling about the direction jetblue is headed having been one of two airlines that lost money last quarter (merging with the other), questions management’s ability to pull this off, and lives near a base at UAL in which he can upgrade in a year and can conceivably have about the same pay and a better QOL cutting out his commute than he’d have even at his seniority at jetblue for the next 15 years. Big pay cut first year, by his math he will catch up in 8-9 years, maybe sooner depending on contract cycles, then be above where he’d be at B6 after that for his last 5 years.

I'm curious, why do you doubt him? I happen to know the person he is referring to. Everything he's said is true.

Yeah the guy retired, with 15 years left. But really he quit. Our pairings are terrible, and management has stated publicly that they aren't done trying to wring more out of us. The schedules will likely get worse.

Commuting as a 17 year CA at jetblue is worse than living in base as a new hire at UAL. Hell, year 2 at UPS beats 10 years or more at jetblue in many ways.

Wait…who am I doubting?

You seem to doubt he is who he says he is or that he knows what he says he does. Maybe I misunderstood.

Yeah. Maybe go re-read the thread. There are 3 people saying he left for UAL. There’s one guy, a newhire or someone who doesn’t even work at blue (gibmaerd), claiming it’s not true about a 17 year guy quitting to go to United, and said guy also claims he sees all resignation emails. Said guy was also asking on this forum about what training pay was a couple weeks ago.