JetBlue is no longer the only U.S. airline that is non-union. On Tuesday the airline?s 2,529 pilots voted to join the Airlines Pilot Association which represents about 50,000 pilots across 31 airlines in the U.S. and Canada. The pilots approved unionization by 71% and JetBlue?s CEO said that the airline would immediately recognize the union as the representative body for its pilots. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology?s Airline Data Project indicates that JetBlue pilots already have slightly higher salaries than pilots at competitor airlines. Some of JetBlue?s pilots stated that they hoped to ?improve [their] professional careers? by unionizing.
See "JetBlue pilots vote to unionize", Patrick Sheridan, CNN Money, April 22, 2014