Thanks. I don't know what the MEC's position is, so I can't comment.
As for Slow's "point", it's funny that we're debating what he hasn't actually said.
Regardless of what he might or might not think, I think it's a fairly dumb game to use past mistakes with respect to scope to extrapolate to future actions. I just don't think it's worth travelling down that road. This is why I don't really care about the AE codeshare.