Hilarious – let’s examine this inventive but flawed analogy;
A hotel reservation, completed guest registration and credit card details, forms a contract directly between you and the hotel. At any time during your stay you are dissatisfied with the hotel/services you have the right to complain to the manager. You also have consumer protection laws and rights via your use of a credit card. If a matter is not resolved you can check-out.
Is there a contract between the pilot and Norwegian? - Answer: No
If a pilot is dissatisfied with a roster, base reassignment, winter layoff, promised upgrade, is the victim of Norwegian’s promoted anonymous reports from a “colleague” or other unsavory matter, can that pilot complain to a Norwegian manager with protection from any adverse affect to their work circumstances and/or future with the company? – Answer: No
Can an indentured pilot ‘check-out’ from Norwegian? – Answer: Yes, it will cost 30,000.
Look at this from another angle – If conditions and treatment are so wonderful, why does Norwegian feel the need to indenture its pilots in the amount of 30K? Norwegian regularly announces it receives thousands of applications from pilots and its terms and conditions are on par with legacy airlines. Pilots at Norwegian have never had it so good (allegedly). If so, why do so many want to leave and would not recommend Norwegian?
Hence the reason I used the phrasing "sort of like" instead of "exactly like". Perhaps you need an English refresher...
Depending on the terms of the reservation with the hotel, you may be charged fully or partially for the entire duration of your reservation, regardless of whether you stay the full time or check out early.