Well, kid, I don't give a flying Osiris how long it took other "Alpa" carriers. Why SWA doesn't count? They replaced mec/nc and got quick deal. You do not give me homework, I get to you on my time. Perhaps you need educated on recent airline history so you make good choice. Oh I forget, you are not bright enough to read and understand TA as written, you need NC to spoon feed and tell you how they felt during negotiations so you see how they got to this TA, so you understand why such high level of suck. End of day, when all feelings and explanations are done the actual words which is what really count still suck. I know, they worked really really hard.