Sorry, think I sort of derailed this fast. If I am correct, it will still take until March for full EFB use, and the potential money savings is a loss since end of this year is target date for Cert merger. If I am incorrect then even with savings on manuals, it would never come close to the money spent adding new AC to another cert and then putting 300ish(guess here) pilots into indoc.

Also I don't see how this could be avoided since standing procedure has been new indoc for any pilots switching certs. How would they get around that? Wouldn't it also take new training even if the profiles and callouts were 100% the same it's still a new program according to the FAA. (I do realize they just added QRCs and a complete change to checklist usage with online only training)

So no need to get into the weeds this much. EFB or Paper manuals aside, how is this saving money? No way 'Delta Uniforms' are that much of a motivator either but hey I've been wrong before. Point I am trying to make is that there MUST be a hidden motive for this merger that has not yet been released.