Posted on 11/27/2022 5:04:05 PM PST by george76
Some JetBlue pilots are outraged after the airline hired a violent felon to fly planes even as it refuses to hire people who haven’t taken the COVID vaccine, citing safety.
Two pilots told The Daily Wire that JetBlue has hired John Perrys, who served nine years in prison for breaking into the home of a judge and attacking his daughter as she left the shower. Perrys was released from prison in 2014 and is on felony probation until 2044, according to the Florida Department of Corrections.
“Apparently JetBlue won’t hire unvaccinated pilots, but they will hire violent convicted felons to fly their airplanes,” one pilot said, speaking on condition of anonymity to protect his job.
In 2005, The Associated Press reported that Perrys, then an Air Force captain, was charged in Louisiana with burglary and assault with a deadly weapon while wearing a mask, and that he faced up to life in prison. Perrys allegedly entered the home of a judge and beat the judge’s daughter, who was his former fiancée, with a metal baton as she left the shower. Police said that when he was arrested, he was wearing a bulletproof vest and his vehicle contained knives, handcuffs, parachute cord, a shovel, and a mask, according to the AP.
JetBlue’s job applications say, “Every decision JetBlue has made throughout the pandemic has been with our safety value front and center. Whether it’s requiring masks, or many of the other health and safety protocols we’ve had to navigate during the pandemic, all of these efforts have been focused on making the workplace and air travel safer for you and our Customers. As part of our commitment to health and safety, COVID-19 vaccines are required for all JetBlue employees. New hire employees must be fully vaccinated prior to the start of training.”
In November 2021, JetBlue said it was requiring nearly all of its 21,000 crew members to take the COVID vaccine, saying it had no choice because it qualified as a federal contractor and was therefore obligated to abide by a Biden administration rule.
But the government never actually enforced that rule. It was delayed, then blocked by an injunction from a judge. Last month, the injunction was lifted, but the following day, the government said, “Despite the lifting of the nationwide bar to enforcement on October 18, 2022, at this time agencies should not: (1) take any steps to require covered contractors and subcontractors to come into compliance with previously issued Task Force guidance; or (2) enforce any contract clauses implementing Executive Order 14042.”
JetBlue did not respond to requests from The Daily Wire about its vaccine policies or the hiring of Perrys.
A screenshot of an internal JetBlue web page reviewed by The Daily Wire listed Perrys as a “Pilot Trainee” and a “Crewmember since July 20, 2022.” Another picture showed him beneath a banner that said “Congratulations Class 34-22,” referring to his training. Perrys did not return a request for comment.
The first pilot who spoke with The Daily Wire said that the airline was training Perrys to fly the Airbus A320, and that “several instructors have refused to train him. Many captains have told management they’ll refuse to fly with him.”
A second pilot said he is “on the line as a flying pilot in control of a plane with up to two hundred paying and oblivious souls on board.”
Note to self...
Don’t fly JetBlue
Don’t fly Spirit either
I remember Jet Blue kicking off a passenger for wearing a “Let’s Go Brandon” mask in March.
No bias there...
Well considering that the felons they hire will havs to be vaxxed, there’s a high chance of them expiring by death by sudden.
So, silver lining...
So...could this guy crash the plane in his former fiancee’s home?
Suicide by crashing a plane has happened before.
What’s next, hiring known terrorists instead of unvaccinated pilots? For safety reasons? The liberal mind doesn’t even pretend to be logical.
Add Frontier to the list.
Jet Blue is the ActBlue of the airlines.
We’re in the process of developing an alternate, unvxd blood-donor system. Also, an alternate wellness-based health care network. Maligned MDs will be opening small hospital facilities. Time to develop an alternate airline.
We’re 100% sick of the cv bullshit. We’re not getting the fn clot shot and we’re not going to live under bridges either.
All conservative social media including FR really needs to take a stand against mandates, private or public.
What assurances can pax have that Mr. Perrys won’t mentally snap and decide to take out 200 people at once? I for one will not fly with a mentally defective pilot: goodbye JetBlue.
All airlines are flying with vaxxed pilots.
Americans are getting dumber and dumber.
I don’t fly Jet Blue, never have.....NEVER will.
No airlines have pilots vaccinated against COVID-1984 because the Jim Jones Jab is not a vaccine regardless of what the CDC changed their definition to.
As for airlines flying with pilots who've taken the Jim Jones Jab; they're flying with pilots they claim have taken it. Until they publish blood test results, they're going to find a lot of them chose not to but came back with a signed card.
The airlines are clearly desperate enough to hire known felons to fly their airplanes.
Bttt
I remember from my student pilot days that a felony conviction was a disqualifier for a pilots license. I guess times change.
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