Any JetBlue pilots on this forum?

ClearedForOption said:
I too am driving the 'big blue bus...' hired last year with 3000-something hours, no TPIC... okay, not true - I have 1 whole hour. I think that about 4 people in my class had no command time. Two were ex-regional FO's that I remember off hand.
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I actually have more turbine PIC than someone on the forum? YESSSSSS!


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Derg said:
I actually have more turbine PIC than someone on the forum? YESSSSSS!


Sent from my TRS-80
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You both have more than me, too. :)

Got lotsa 402 PIC time though, if anyone wants some! I'll write a check!
 
Most people in this forum have far more turbine PIC than I do too. I had hoped that doing a little Part 91 corporate flying would show some unique customer service experience and might differentiate me from the throng of RJ Captains all competing for the same jobs.

This has, regrettably, not been the case.
 
ZapBrannigan said:
Most people in this forum have far more turbine PIC than I do too. I had hoped that doing a little Part 91 corporate flying would show some unique customer service experience and might differentiate me from the throng of RJ Captains all competing for the same jobs.

This has, regrettably, not been the case.
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I honestly talked more about working at Disney than I did working at Pinnacle during my interview at B6. I think that knowledge did more to get me in the pool than anything I learned at Pinnacle. Keep plugging away. You'll get the chance. :)
 
kellwolf said:
I honestly talked more about working at Disney than I did working at Pinnacle during my interview at B6. I think that knowledge did more to get me in the pool than anything I learned at Pinnacle. Keep plugging away. You'll get the chance. :)
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JetBlue LOVES Disney. When you get to indoc and they are doing their presentations in the auditorium they will mention Disney A LOT.
 
ZapBrannigan said:
(suppressing... urge... to make... pixie dust... joke...)
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Don't hold back. Trust me, I've heard them all. :)

In all seriousness, I have never gotten any better customer service training than what I got from Disney. Universal and Sea World kinda borrow some, but they don't give you the tools in training that Disney does. The tools even exist outside of the training environment. I have yet to work for a company other than Disney that will let you get guests free things as a form of service recovery without supervisor approval. Most companies take the "the employees will rob us blind/give away the store" mentality. Disney gives their cast members vouchers they can write out for ANYTHING up to a triple digit dollar amount without supervisor approval. If it's over $99.99, then you need a supervisor's signature on the voucher, but that's it.

Honestly, if Pinnacle goes TU or I get displaced back to the right seat with slashed wages an jacked up health care costs, I'd go back there in a heartbeat while I wait out the call from jetBlue.
 
Just out of curiosity, are the Disney workers unionized? I know that is a broad questions, just wondering.

I also LOVE Disney.
 
I'm a big Disney fan. For the last 3 years I've forked over thousands of dollars (Once to Disney World, twice to Disneyland, and twice to Disney Cruise Lines) so I absolutely believe that they do things right. All joking aside they are a very impressive company.
 
Seggy said:
Just out of curiosity, are the Disney workers unionized? I know that is a broad questions, just wondering.

I also LOVE Disney.
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Yes, they are. It's not a closed shop, though. Lots of people get the benefits without paying dues. Honestly, I don't like the way the unions run things at Disney. When I was hired, they tried to pretty much trick everyone into signing up by sliding the union cards into the stack of other new hire paperwork and not telling people what they were. Half of us got halfway through filling it out before we realized what it was. If they were up front and presented it the way they should, I wager 90% of the class wouldn't have just put those cards to the side when they finally said, very quitely, "Yeah, that's to join the union."

Benefits were good, too. I remember when the contract got re-negotiated for the attractions workers and we actually had to start paying insurance premiums out of our paychecks.....$5 a check.

After having worked theme parks in a union and a non-union environment, you get more freedom and flexibility in the non-union environment. Promotions were more or less based on seniority first and who was better at the job second. Eventually, they did away with the hourly management positions all together. Universal and Sea World still have them, and it takes a lot of the stress off the salaried management people since they don't have to be 5 places at once. It's also easier to get the people that DON'T do their jobs, well, in other jobs. Pretty much every argument against unions was present at Disney with very few of the advantages present.
 
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