I don't understand this concept of taking the SWAPA contract in its entirety. For instance - if we had the SWAPA contract, word for word, then we wouldn't have pay scales for most of our fleets. That's ok, you say, we'll juts add a provision that says all of the other fleets will use the same pay scale. Heck, it would still be a pay raise for most pilots. The problem is, by doing that, you have, by necessity, modified the original contract and you no longer have the actual SWAPA contract. How about crew rest facilities? I bet there's no provision in the SWAPA contract for crew rest facilities - another thing that would have to be changed (or, do we just let mgt do their own thing wrt crew rest). 2 capts, 2 FO's on 12+ hour flights, isn't that in our contract as well? I guess we could go to 1 and 3 - captains are over rated any way. Again more changes.

I agree - there is probably much of the SWAPA contract that would be great for DL pilots (their scope is hard to beat) - but the whole contract, in it's entirety, without modification? I don't see how that would even work.