Originally Posted by windrider

LA...according to MIT?? Come on seriously?? Truthfully I could care less about what the stockholders/management people award to themselves. They put up millions of dollars to start this airline. Go start your own airline then you can award yourself millions of stock options. That's why they did it!! To get richer!! It's not about the pilots, flight attendants, rampers, agents, etc. It's about them taking a risk and getting rewarded for it. When will you people realize that. As long as they treat me fairly, compensate me fairly and hopefully give me a place to work until I retire that's all I can ask for. I work for them, they don't work for me. If I get to a point that I don't like it then I will leave. Please tell me, what is fair wages and benefits for this job?? To work half a month and make over 6 figures seems pretty damn good to me. Let's be truthful, we aren't that special and most anyone can do this job. Yes it's skilled labor but anyone with the money can go out and get the skills. I don't think we are the most productive, but I think we are better than average. We aren't the highest paid but I think we are at least average or above average. You can work as little as 70 hours or as much as 100 hours and depending on the trip 150+ hours per month. No where else can you do this. Premium pay over 78 hours, full credit for DH, etc. It's more than just what the hourly pay scale says. I contribute 5% to my 401K, JB gives me 5% match plus another 5% profit sharing bonus for a total of 10%. How much more do you expect? Please tell me how we are underpaid in comparison to everyone else. Almost everyone else you want to compare us to has given up work rules, took paycuts, retirement hits, furloughed, downsized, etc.

Originally Posted by ExpectDirect

Overheard a CP giving someone an update that 150 new hires is the plan right now for 2012, but could change. Also remarked that the people in Phase 2 pool should fill classes through about June 2012.

Originally Posted by lake alice

The truth hurts the blue-juicers. They can't fathom JetBlue isn't the utopia the believe.

Originally Posted by windrider

For the record I don't listen to anything from JB management I draw my own conclusion from what I have experienced. Talk to Delta they think they have it the worst, same from American, United/Continental, same from US Air, America West....blah blah blah the list goes on. Truthfully I've never read or studied any reports MIT has done. Sounds like it's a great resource/guide. The profit sharing is guaranteed 5% so while it may not be compounded interest (yet another reason for you to *****, ie: jetblue is giving us profit sharing but i'm still not happy because it should be more) it is a bonus that goes into our retirement account. It's apparent some of you will never be happy. I've spoken my mind. Please, go get hired by someone else so I can move up the seniority list quicker. And one last note LA...I'm sure that wasn't your attitude when you came to work here. Since you are so smart then why are you still here? Because you can't get hired anywhere else probably.