I can't recommend JetBlue at this time
06-07-2017 | 03:38 AM
#461
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From: Reverse Cowgirl
This post is for all the prospective new hires. I have been here for just about one year. For perspective, I live in base and hold a line. I am the kind of pilot they are looking to hire here (i.e., clean record, college degrees, local to a base, etc.). I barely made it one year before resigning to work for another airline. I gave up a one hour drive to commute by plane for the rest of my career. That should speak volumes to you. Is this a good company to come to for a new type rating while you build your resume and log more flight time? Absolutely. The pilots you will fly with are generally great guys and gals. Is this a career airline? Sorry, no. I came here with high hopes and thought I'd be here for good. However, I was discouraged with the whole operation- the lack of respect for the pilots, the lack of retirements and movement, the low pay, etc. I started updating my apps within 6 months of my hire date. If you have any length of time left in your career and/or have a family to support (pay and medical) I would strongly urge that you wait for the legacy airline or the purple or brown guys to call you first. Feel free to PM me if you'd like to chat. Also, I should say I'm a regular APC poster but I'm using this account to preserve anonymity. Good luck to all the blue pilots here. I hope you get the contract that will make you happy!
06-07-2017 | 06:25 AM
#462
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This post is for all the prospective new hires. I have been here for just about one year. For perspective, I live in base and hold a line. I am the kind of pilot they are looking to hire here (i.e., clean record, college degrees, local to a base, etc.). I barely made it one year before resigning to work for another airline. I gave up a one hour drive to commute by plane for the rest of my career. That should speak volumes to you. Is this a good company to come to for a new type rating while you build your resume and log more flight time? Absolutely. The pilots you will fly with are generally great guys and gals. Is this a career airline? Sorry, no. I came here with high hopes and thought I'd be here for good. However, I was discouraged with the whole operation- the lack of respect for the pilots, the lack of retirements and movement, the low pay, etc. I started updating my apps within 6 months of my hire date. If you have any length of time left in your career and/or have a family to support (pay and medical) I would strongly urge that you wait for the legacy airline or the purple or brown guys to call you first. Feel free to PM me if you'd like to chat. Also, I should say I'm a regular APC poster but I'm using this account to preserve anonymity. Good luck to all the blue pilots here. I hope you get the contract that will make you happy!
06-07-2017 | 06:27 AM
#463
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This post is for all the prospective new hires. I have been here for just about one year. For perspective, I live in base and hold a line. I am the kind of pilot they are looking to hire here (i.e., clean record, college degrees, local to a base, etc.). I barely made it one year before resigning to work for another airline. I gave up a one hour drive to commute by plane for the rest of my career. That should speak volumes to you. Is this a good company to come to for a new type rating while you build your resume and log more flight time? Absolutely. The pilots you will fly with are generally great guys and gals. Is this a career airline? Sorry, no. I came here with high hopes and thought I'd be here for good. However, I was discouraged with the whole operation- the lack of respect for the pilots, the lack of retirements and movement, the low pay, etc. I started updating my apps within 6 months of my hire date. If you have any length of time left in your career and/or have a family to support (pay and medical) I would strongly urge that you wait for the legacy airline or the purple or brown guys to call you first. Feel free to PM me if you'd like to chat. Also, I should say I'm a regular APC poster but I'm using this account to preserve anonymity. Good luck to all the blue pilots here. I hope you get the contract that will make you happy!
System bid should be out any week now and I dread the lack of movement.
06-07-2017 | 07:00 AM
#464
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From: 190 captain and “Pro-pilot”
Scolded by the blue pilot janitors.
You can't help yourself can you?
As for the poster I wish him luck it's better that he made that decision vs being stuck here. Having said that it's not a decision he should have to make(read that again) if JetBlue is ever going to keep good pilots they need to get their crap together. It is not 2010 we are not the only game.
06-07-2017 | 07:10 AM
#465
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Scolded by the blue pilot janitors.
You can't help yourself can you?
As for the poster I wish him luck it's better that he made that decision vs being stuck here. Having said that it's not a decision he should have to make(read that again) if JetBlue is ever going to keep good pilots they need to get their crap together. It is not 2010 we are not the only game.
You can't help yourself can you?
As for the poster I wish him luck it's better that he made that decision vs being stuck here. Having said that it's not a decision he should have to make(read that again) if JetBlue is ever going to keep good pilots they need to get their crap together. It is not 2010 we are not the only game.
However, they say they feel okay with the number of apps and stated that its the 3-5 year outlook that they fear. Thats what theyre selling in recurrent along with the low attrition numbers anyway.
It could just be posturing, but I fail to see the incentive for a CBA if they truly are not concerned with attrition or apps on file.
06-07-2017 | 07:20 AM
#467
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The numbers as they stand now, make leaving a no-brainer, but a very good CBA could change the math- Not the movement though. Thats the worst aspect of B6- retirements are abysmal, which is obviously no fault of B6 and will remain for the next 15 years. This is only 1 opinion out of 3400 pilots.
06-07-2017 | 07:46 AM
#469
The REAL Bluedriver
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From: Airbus Capt
Last time I checked crewtrac about a month ago we had broken 3500 pilots. Now we are back below 3500. We are literally a shrinking airline with no retirements!
#keepsgettingbetterrightjoecouldn'thelpmyself!
#keepsgettingbetterrightjoecouldn'thelpmyself!
06-07-2017 | 08:04 AM
#470
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Attrition numbers aren't all that high currently, but from what I'm seeing on the line there is a LARGE number just waiting to see what'll happen this year and are ready to leave as soon as it becomes apparent there a) won't be a TA this year or b) the TA is underwhelming.
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