Rumors I heard from a friend at UCAL. Not verified and not regarding merger so if its been posted before, apologies.

UCAL is going to buy an iPad for each pilot. All their pubs are electronic and the only paper copies are on each jet. They have approval to use it in flight ABOVE 10000 ft. So not an EFB yet, but working in that direction.

Due to the rolling power outages in NRT, pilots complained of being unable to get adequate crew rest on their layovers when the outage was 0000-0400 local time thus causing fatigue. UCAL management agreed to augment all Asia flying with an extra pilot including legs under 8 hours like NRT-BKK and NRT-SIN. This was apparently cheaper than staging everything from KIX-NRT-wherever for all the crews.