Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Accident of history... runup to a crazy election and the local dems in HI advocated in favor of the merger (alternative being potential HAL BK and SWA takeover). Also the regime was on the electoral ropes and IMO didn't want to make any high profile anti-business / anti-economy moves on short final to the election.
Exactly. I don't think it is fair to compare AK/HI to F9 trying to buy NK.
Nobody knows what would've happened, but I don't think it would have been the slam dunk that many on here seem to speculate over. It could have easily been blocked just like with B6.
What we do know to be true is that TC lied under oath that NK would be fine continuing on its own and that there was a "plan" to make money again.
Ted gets zero sympathy in my book.