Originally Posted by BKbigfish

The DOJ said they were suing to block this merger regardless of any sort of concessions B6 was willing to make. They were dead set on blocking any and every merger they feasibly could. They wanted to block the AS/HA merger but ended up with egg on their face after successfully torpedoing the B6/NK merger and it was too close to the election. The whole thing is just a gigantic comedy of errors.