The majority of pilots are so short sighted it’s sad. Pay rates can change with a flick of a switch, and management will have no problem doing that if they see a need for it. Just look back 5 years ago when AA unilaterally gave an 8% raise, no strings attached.

What Alaska did was focus on quality of life issues. Some are major, some minor which I think is the beauty of the agreement.

I hope it passes for the sole reason that it establishes a baseline industry wide that QOL issues are most important.