Originally Posted by strfyr51

the FAA sorted through over 600 operating manuals and approves what THEY wanted Not just what the compant wanted. We now have 179 operating volumes and over 10K
pages of documents still for the FAA to review. Until the IT stuff is resolved with the Electronic log book we won't be finished. The flight proceedures are NOT the overriding factor. Dispatch will be integrating this winter Maint.Control not until next May if ever and then everything will be changed again when we all move to an even NEWER system.
There's no way in HELL anybody could have forseen what date the SOC was coming.
And even AFTER SOC none of this integreation will be even STARTED much less Finished
The FAA inspector we talked to said that even Delta and Northwest aren't even close to finished integrating yet. so this might take another 2-3 years to complete which includes the A350's and the UAL ordered 787's and possibly the 747-8's..