ellen what makes you think ACARS is that great? sure you get atis and performance on it, but it takes away flexibility from the crew calling in their times. not to mention management in the future will say, now that you can do everything with ACARS, lets cut the turn times from 27 minutes to 15 minutes. No thanks.

Now CPDLC is cool because of the hassle with HF... but anyway Ellen serious who do you fly for