You're misreading what I said. The OP is talking about pay rates, and myself and a couple others said that pilots are short sighted, and the only thing they look for in the contract is money when the language comes out. From my years at the regionals to my time here, it's always "What's first year pay!? What's the top pay rate!?" while completely skipping the rest of the contract. My point was that the AA CEO knows this and he threw the pilots a bone and said "You guys are always taking about Delta, here's the money, now get back to work", when the reality is that the work rules are just as important, if not more important than the pay rates.

Of course I want BOTH, however if JB wants to pay me $500/hr but have nothing but in-base layovers, minimum credit pairings and other crap rules that makes our QOL tank, they can take the money and shove it.