As a former ER guy, I'd love to see an EFB. I was tired of having high altitude charts for the entire world, all 3" of them and both domestic and international charts in my poor bursting kit.

However, I think on the ER I'd preferred to see all of the aircraft equipped with GPS so I wouldn't have to be on a track in a 75ER with 0 offset and watch everyone pass a mile or so off our left side. I got passed a lot off my left with 0 offset. Something isn't right there. And every damn one of those planes should have satcom. Given the company won't do that, and I'm assuming it hasn't been done in the last few months, I doubt EFBs are of any concern.

Also, at Continental Express I know they also looked into it and found out that Jepp was not going to lower the price at all, EFB or paper was the same cost except for the fact you have to dump the money into the equipment so really your costs just go up enormously, not down. Just as ACL said. And FAA certification is a pain in the rear too. But oddly, I have seen the FAA allow operations to have a printer in the airplane, didn't even have to be in the cabin, and you just print the charts you need. If you need something else, like on a divert, you just go print those in the back of the plane. Idiotic? Yes. FAA approved? Yes. I think we should do that, and put the printer on the 88 and 9 by the gear periscope.

Also, NWA pilots weren't flying around without charts pre merger, they had charts too. The cost in Jepps for old Delta to new Delta should be about the same.