JetBlue Interview

[Farley]

It's a moot point. US Airways was paying pilots for lots of hours they didn't fly (work rules). We don't get paid for sitting at home. Our pay is structured to reward you for flying more. So it's pointless to compare us to them.
The guys that come to us now understand that they will have to work to get paid, no matter how unfair that may seem.

 

[mentorforhealth]

Does JetBlue have a reserve system? Do pilots get a reserve guarantee? I'm sure it does and it pays pilots to sit home and get paid in order to cover trips that are disrupted by weather, sickness, etc.

I agree that some U pilots get paid to sit around due to duty rigs but most pilots want to fly. The duty rigs are there to insure the company is more efficient with scheduling. Pilots don't make up the flying schedule, management does. Management still has not figured out how to schedule this airline efficiently. They never will as long as the current management is in place.

 

[autofixer]

U pilots never wanted to be paid for sitting around. Management built inefficient trips, sitting crew around for 3.5 hours at a time. Any U pilot would have been glad to fly 8 hours hard time a day.

You are however correct, any U pilots who come to JBLU know the rules and are glad to be working by them.

From a former U pilot out of the industry and glad of it!

 

[jetsandprops]

Why not have ALPA and US work to solve this problem so each pilot has the same hard time at US as JBLU? Although without an increase in flying this would mean more layoffs.

 

[mentorforhealth]

It's amazing how this post started as a question concerning getting an interview at JetBlue to the bashing of the pilots at USAirways, ALPA and U management.