Biggest Problem is MANDATORY SHIFT FREEZE / EXTENSION - Airport Operations Crew Member JetBlue Employee Review

3.0
9 Aug 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great company. Friendly culture. Flexibility to trade shifts. Very diverse. Efficient and environmental friendly company.

Cons

Mandatory Shift Extensions at ANY TIME no matter if you have plans or not. This means you must call babysitters, second obligation, significant other etc and tell them you cannot make it to pick up your child as promised - due to facing termination or harsh disciplinary action. You could also end up staying past your shift at least 8 hours or longer, meaning you have been awake for 24 straight hours. That's when its easy to make critical mistakes due to sleep deprivation. This happened to me at least 3 times in 2 yrs of employment. However, being FORCED to stay past my scheduled shift has happened at least 20 times in 2 years. Some stations have old and non-working equipment which have the same problems over and over - and no replacement is ever ordered. Just useless repairs which does not resolve the issues. This causes customers to become very upset and causes long lines for customer assistance.

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Pros

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Cons

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