rokking566

Can you guys give me some information about this program. The pros and the cons, etc.

JonGalt

Seems like a good deal. There have been people to move through the program, someone recently made the transition in less than 3 years from Cape Air over to JB. There have been others that have been sent back to Cape Air after the guaranteed interview at JB.

The ONLY thing the program assures you is an interview with JetBlue. After being a Cape Air CA for roughly 2 years racking up around 3000TT then you are primed for the next step. JB also sends you to a jet transition course and then the interview (which is all HR no technical).

If you can survive the slave labor of Cape Air then the program is for you. Right now Cape Air is struggling to retain pilots and the schedules are getting worse (14 hour days flying 8 hours with little breaks). A lot of people are jumping ship. They haven't brought more than 5 CAs in the past 9 months and all the new CA are going to undesirable places like Montana or Martha's Vineyard (Good luck finding a couch to sleep on for less than $900/week). I will have been here for a year, upgrade to CA, and still be a super junior CA because of attrition and no new pilots. At Cape Air right now QOL sucks, pay sucks, bases suck, hours suck. But you are guaranteed an interview with JB which may or may not work out.