If you think a pilot contract is just about pay, you are grossly misinformed. If it was just pay rates, it would be a couple pages long at most. Most airline contracts are over 100 pages long with all kinds of clauses in em like what is required to drop or trade a trip, leaves of absence, who gets junior manned in what order all the way down to seat assignment hierarchy for deadheads. Listen to these SkyWest guys. Their hourly rates aren't bad. But where they make their real money is in the workrules of their contract, not in the hourly rate. So in summary, the title of this thread should probably have been something along the lines of "New Pinnacle Contract"