CaptCoolHand

How many ways can you think of to skin a cat?

He was not terminating because he's on the OC, or part of 3A, or an "obstructionist".

But if your a CHK airman and steal thousands, you only get a 6mo vacation.

amcflyboy

Pardon the question:

What are "Former OC Pilots?"

Flyby1206

OC = Organizing Committee, probably from the last ALPA drive

benzoate

JetBlue is well aware they may be wrong in this case but ether way a staff of 30 lawyers can easily drag out this case for 2 years. In the end the pilot loses more than the corporation and they know this.

hockeypilot44

The airline was started to undercut the legacies. For this to happen, the employees have to get cost less. The legacies took massive pay cuts to be brought down to Jetblue's level. Now the legacies are on the upswing again, and their pay is increasing. Unfortunately, it seems Jetblue doesn't want to increase their pay with the legacies. Now Jetblue pilots will make less than their peers again. I have no ill will towards the Jetblue pilots. I do think maybe it's time you guys unionize though.

Herkulesdrvr

you get what you vote for and the juicers like to get taken advantage of. No other way to really put it.

Bluedriver

YOU took the job at the wage undercutting non-union low pay no protections airline. And you stayed.

No other way to really put it.

gloopy

Unless the pilot lives below his means (if you can't live on less than half of CA pay at any "big 6" airline then you can't manage your finances), takes a contract job while it works its way though the courts and then comes back to full back pay plus a much fatter bank account plus potential damages. I've known guys "taken hostage" in that type of situation before and the ones that were prepared for it came out ahead big time while some of the perpetual "paycheck to paycheck" ones were ruined or close to it.

Anyone in this country living paycheck to paycheck making 6 figures simply can't manage their money and it makes us weaker as a profession and hurts our ability to work towards making more.

If you can never "afford" to walk away, you will be forced to take whatever you're given. That's a pretty poor foundation to try and build something on.

IQuitEagle

If you really believe that the legacy airlines took pay cuts "to be brought down to Jetblue's level" and the likes, you really have no clue about the history of the industry. I do agree that jetBlue management doesn't want to raise the pay now to match said carriers, but jetBlue is not responsible for the concessionary contracts.

If you'd look into it, you'd realize that pre-9/11, legacy airlines were headed toward having major issues with revenue and cost. 9/11 acted as a catalyst. However, if you continue to believe that jetBlue and other "low-cost" airlines are indeed responsible, then the same has to be said of American Airlines (B-scale wages, anyone? Which allowed for AA to grow and become what it had become recently, at the expense of United pilots who were paid more), Continental/Texas Air (look into its history), and just about every airline out there. Nothing is black and white.

Moby Dick

Sorry, but YOU need the history lesson. UAL, LCC and DAL were ALL assigned B6 narrowbody rates by bankruptcy courts. That is simply a fact.