We already have it in our language, so getting rid of it is a concession. We need to be making the company send us to these hotels to keep in compliance with the contract.

If you have a 30 hour layover somewhere, are you really okay spending it at an airport hotel? That's torture to me, and that's the reason all other major airlines send their pilots to downtown hotels in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia (our hotel is pretty good), etc. Why should we be any different?