Originally Posted by Excargodog

if that were TRULY the case, I think B6 WOULD up the ante. They did that with Virgin America, forcing AS to raise the price (for an airline AS really just wanted to go away) to far above what would have been a reasonable price. No reason to believe they wouldn’t try to cripple a competitor the same way.

look at all the money B6 has already cost F9 by their competing bid. Best case for B6 may be that the vote just barely fails, forcing F9 to dig even deeper into their own pockets.