Pilots are only more important when part of the onboard hierarchy. Once away from the airport, they are simply fellow employees. Pilots do not deserve better standards of accommodation, higher allowances, first room allocation, better crew meals, higher priority staff travel, seperate crew transport, extra hotel freebies such as wi-fi or dry cleaning...
Pilots absolutely deserve some of the above. That will be the day I wait in the lobby while the F/A's get their rooms.
"Command Authority" is the order for hotel check-in.
It wasn't that long ago the Skipper got a Suite. Thanks to the F/A's (and the Airline capitulating) we are into the "...we are all equal" B.S.
Give them an inch..and they take a mile.
We are NOT equal, F/A's just have to get over it.