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#4211
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2017
Posts: 252
Sadly this is where we need Mgmt to step up. Launch a contingency plan, put this CBA to bed, let the newly motivated work groups get to work, use obstacles to triumph, get Tony Robbins in here for some TED talks. Its just a dream though. We always have the garden & tech ventures to fall back on
#4212
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2008
Posts: 1,236
We already fly to Cleveland. At least out of BOS and FLL we do. Not sure about JFK. Cincinnati and St Louis? I imagine if they thought we could make any money there we'd be flying there. They're not exactly flourishing cities.
#4213
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2015
Posts: 917
They blew it out West, they should have gone for SJC, now Frontier, Southwest and Alaska are all expanding there. They need to stop f'ing around with LGB, the locals don't care and we are flying half empty A320s up and down the west coast, cut your loses because we just can't compete with Southwest on the left coast. If you want to be an east coast airline, fine... then just do it!
I have lost all confidence in this leadership team!
#4214
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Aug 2008
Posts: 503
Well maybe with this tragedy ( reducing at least 20 roundtrips a day) and the solutions created by the interns earlier this year, our on-time performance should be top notch.
As for flying to new cities, how about not reducing CLT to one flight a day during the holidays? Our Management doesn't need to step up, they need to do their job. Or maybe that's their plan, both for the upcoming contract or buyout ( Cape Air is running right next to United), let that stock get down to $15.
Hoping for the best for SJU, not from an airline view.
As for flying to new cities, how about not reducing CLT to one flight a day during the holidays? Our Management doesn't need to step up, they need to do their job. Or maybe that's their plan, both for the upcoming contract or buyout ( Cape Air is running right next to United), let that stock get down to $15.
Hoping for the best for SJU, not from an airline view.
#4215
Not A Janitor
Joined APC: Aug 2008
Posts: 814
ZERO confidence in our leadership. I used to think job security was good here even with no retirements and all those order deferrals, but now I'm genuinely worried. Crappy pay, work rules, hotels and now job security. It's like flying the ATR at the regionals again.
#4216
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2008
Posts: 522
I'm really not concerned anymore whether or not the company is in any hurry to reach an agreement. The process is in motion. Our negotiators have followed a well traveled, well defined road that will bring us our contract.
We have a very good mediator, who as an ex airline pilot, knows this game. Our proposals are reasonable and well within what we should expect to receive, and well within the financial capabilities of the company.
Once the mediator comes to the conclusion that a mediated deal can't be reached, we will move on to the next phase of this process. One where the company will have to make some difficult decisions. Come to an agreement that is reasonable and peer-standard, or risk their reputation with their customers (at a minimum), or millions of dollars in lost revenue when planes stop flying.
Again. The company can delay all they want. But the timeline isn't ultimately all their decision any longer.
Fights on, fights on.
We have a very good mediator, who as an ex airline pilot, knows this game. Our proposals are reasonable and well within what we should expect to receive, and well within the financial capabilities of the company.
Once the mediator comes to the conclusion that a mediated deal can't be reached, we will move on to the next phase of this process. One where the company will have to make some difficult decisions. Come to an agreement that is reasonable and peer-standard, or risk their reputation with their customers (at a minimum), or millions of dollars in lost revenue when planes stop flying.
Again. The company can delay all they want. But the timeline isn't ultimately all their decision any longer.
Fights on, fights on.
The thing is there is no end game. With 2/3 democrats on the NMB it was nearly impossible to get released. Now with soon to be 2/3 republican it won’t be possible at all. The only way this gets done in my eyes is an aggressive media and picketing campaign. If the next bargaining session doesn’t get us nearly finished the picketing, newspaper ads, billboards need to be put into overdrive. Can’t rely on the process any longer because the NMB is bought.
#4217
We should be flying from BOS to CVG/IND/STL/MCI/MSP. Southwest flies to those cities from BOS and charges a hefty price. We could make money on those routes!
They blew it out West, they should have gone for SJC, now Frontier, Southwest and Alaska are all expanding there. They need to stop f'ing around with LGB, the locals don't care and we are flying half empty A320s up and down the west coast, cut your loses because we just can't compete with Southwest on the left coast.
They blew it out West, they should have gone for SJC, now Frontier, Southwest and Alaska are all expanding there. They need to stop f'ing around with LGB, the locals don't care and we are flying half empty A320s up and down the west coast, cut your loses because we just can't compete with Southwest on the left coast.
A buddy was explaining to me the airline politician who runs our airline lacks the innovation to expand the company in ways that are true to its inception. Adaptation and survival are hallmarks of jetblue she history and this could be one of those times that it's time to adapt the "sweet spot" into the Midwest.
-Bubs
#4218
Banned
Joined APC: Apr 2011
Posts: 1,473
No doubt. When I came to Jblue all I heard was "the sweet spot". Fly where the people are. I bet there are a lot of people in the Boston and New York markets who are looking to travel to the above mentioned cities. They're riding on Delta out of JFK and United out of EWR. Those are fair game customer service that would try Jblue.
A buddy was explaining to me the airline politician who runs our airline lacks the innovation to expand the company in ways that are true to its inception. Adaptation and survival are hallmarks of jetblue she history and this could be one of those times that it's time to adapt the "sweet spot" into the Midwest.
-Bubs
A buddy was explaining to me the airline politician who runs our airline lacks the innovation to expand the company in ways that are true to its inception. Adaptation and survival are hallmarks of jetblue she history and this could be one of those times that it's time to adapt the "sweet spot" into the Midwest.
-Bubs
#4219
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2011
Position: A320 CA
Posts: 199
#4220
The REAL Bluedriver
Joined APC: Sep 2011
Position: Airbus Capt
Posts: 6,881
An AIP/TA by January is insane false hope. This company does NOT need a CBA to plan its future. The "complex" items are agreed to already for the most part and for the remaining expensive items they can just look at our peers and KNOW every single piece of our CBA and "plan" for anything. Not that they do much "planning" around here.
It will almost surely require some brand embarrassment (picketing, media, billboards, etc...) or a transactional event to get them to agree to a CBA prior to their original plan (hell freezing over).
It will almost surely require some brand embarrassment (picketing, media, billboards, etc...) or a transactional event to get them to agree to a CBA prior to their original plan (hell freezing over).
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