Make no mistake, Lina and Joseph wanted to block AS/HA, REAL bad, to satisfy their activist itch. Nevermind that HA would fail and the islands would be infested with SWA and local jobs displaced by mainland crews. They just got told to stand down due to pre-election political optics.

To their credit, AS managers played the timing exquisitely, and made all the right noises to leverage the political situation. Maybe they just stumbled into it, but given how many landmines they navigated I tend to give them the BOD.