I agree with you the key to a great contract is both work rules and a good pay rate. We are fine on pay rates for the generation of our contract. Pay rates are always the last thing to be negotiated because they are the easiest to be figured out. Thanks to pattern barging and Delta, United and AA will probably have their contracts or at least TAs in place when we are done. Work rules /pay protections are far more complex and we lead the industry or come close in a lot of this area. Yes I am a self admitted higher end of the pay range Pilot but I don't sit on FLICA and I haven't even had FLICA alerts set up since last year. I just always pick up the phone and don't screen company calls on my days off. In base VDA is where money gets made here. I am more afraid of changing up work rules in favor of pay then the other way around. I hope AA improves their work rules it's a win for the industry but for now we take home more because of their weak work rules. If that new UAL TA is a sign of pay rates to come we should have a nice pay and retirement raise when CBA 2.0 comes our way. JetBlue is a good place to be for earnings, not so great for QOL.