Newbie here - be nice. This sure seem like a more spin free zone than the web boards

Do we have any official comments, either MEC or Co. regarding the Japan so-called Open Skies?

Other than divining the press statements by Anderson et al, do we have any flavor of the way the JAL deal is going?

Also curious for those more familiar with the system is the count pilots holding a preference page in iCrew a reasonable predictor of AE outcome?