Cancelation pay is a MUST and we won't bend on that. Rates are one thing but when things cancel and your month goes to hell in a hand basket you'll think about how cancelation pay goes a long way to improve life. Just today with all the wx in the Midwest I lost 6+ hours of pay. So now to get that back ill have to burn time off just to make that up. So yes it is a big deal. I'm tired of this company making Kirby and me losing it. It has created a culture of passing on the buck for write ups to. Certain people don't want to write things up because they don't want to lose money. Tell me how that's safe? People ask us why we can't pull of what AA pilots just did, well that's why. So this contract needs to get done and it needs to be done right. And until this company has a recruiting problem, nothing will change and they won't give us the contract that is industry standard or slightly above. There's no incentive for the company. So all people who don't work here or see how things work first hand should rethink their comments against this pilot group. And for those considering this company should really look elsewhere until its all sorted out. When I got here things weren't too bad, and people were convinced this would be finished quickly. Guess what. We were wrong. So take that for what it is. And if I could go somewhere else I would. I am trying...so to each their own.