JetBlue pilots have reached an agreement with management that just about any US airline employee would be happy with at this point... US airlines received around $50 billion worth of grants and loans through the CARES Act. This included payroll protection, whereby airlines had to agree to not involuntarily furlough any employees through at least…
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Given the NDA which prevents ALPA from telling anyone what was actually agreed to, I think it's premature to say that this is an agreement that just about anyone would be happy with. As an airline pilot myself, and a relatively junior one at that, of course I want to prevent furloughs, but not at any cost. Without knowing what the costs of the agreement are, it's really too soon to celebrate it.
I'm not surprised as JetBlue, like Southwest or Spirit, is a more efficiently run airline than the legacy 3.
Just look at AA's upcoming mass layoffs. DL and UA will follow.
Well done. Loose lips sink ships.
If you really want transparency maybe a union isn't the best thing. It might cost you more, and a lot less for the union leaders.
Personally, B6 pilots should celebrate. At the end of the day, they still kept their jobs for almost a year.
@Eskimo: I never said they need to be more transparent, but it's absolutely true that it's impossible to know how good an agreement is without knowing the full picture. The information will be known at some point, and only then can we really know if the affected pilots should be celebrating.
Has JetBlue announced anything about their London plans? Seems unlikely at this point...
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Why? My guess is Gatwick and Stansted will be absolutely desperate for new business right now, and very cheap; and Heathrow may even have some spare capacity.
Why don’t we wait and see what the agreement entails and if any concessions were made behind the pilots backs before calling this a huge win. Devils in the details when it comes to this stuff. Way too early to be cheerleading this agreement. However it is promising and I for one hope ALPA knocked it out of the park for JetBlue pilots.