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[jayjay]

How good is the PTO at JetBlue for you guys to want to keep it that bad the way it is?

 

[gopherdx]

How good is the PTO at JetBlue for you guys to want to keep it that bad the way it is?

First year dispatchers start with 5 weeks accrual. After 5 years I jumps to 7 weeks, after 10 - 8 weeks, and at 15 years it tops out at 9 weeks of PTO.

 

[Mike Deruki]

First year dispatchers start with 5 weeks accrual. After 5 years I jumps to 7 weeks, after 10 - 8 weeks, and at 15 years it tops out at 9 weeks of PTO.

Sick time is part of that, or a separate category? Is there any additional comp time for holidays? Just trying to compare apples to apples.

 

[gopherdx]

Sick time is part of that, or a separate category? Is there any additional comp time for holidays? Just trying to compare apples to apples.

Correct, sick time is part of that. We don’t get comp days for working holidays

 

[BruinsFan]

Few things. Director leaving, manager stepping down to do something else, other departments in the SOC getting raises, etc and we got nothing. The only thing we got was a change to our schedule from 4/3/4/4 to 4 on 4 off which had nothing to do with the compensation review. That could have been done by our value committee and outside of the compensation board. They only made it happen there because it made the hourly rate go up (same pay scale, no changes) so making it seem like the hourly rate was more would satisfy us. Also talks of maybe United buying us down the road or anyone else, the new Directors from AA wanting to change the SOC to Dispatch based like the other airlines and also that almost every other airline has a union anyways.

What do you mean by Dispatch Based? How is the way JetBlue ran the SOC before different than other airlines before Olsen got there?

 

[gopherdx]

What do you mean by Dispatch Based? How is the way JetBlue ran the SOC before different than other airlines before Olsen got there?

I think what they meant is that the system controllers weren’t required to be dispatchers like they are pretty much every other airline. As soon as Olsen got there, he always had the idea of changing that. I don’t think anyone is inherently against this happening, especially on the dispatch side, it’s just the way they’re handling it makes us question whether something similar can happen to us.