I agree with this one. Use Mesa as an exit strategy to get the F out. IMO, SD wants to accomodate whatever remaining passengers that have already booked on Mokulele in good faith and when the last passenger is accomodated he's going to pull the plug as an investor with Mesa and wash his hands from the whole Hawaii adventure.

Here is my layman's way of looking at it. Two enemy ships sinking next to one another. Yours is sinking faster. Form a joint venture with the enemy, get all your crew and passengers on the enemies ship and help bail. The rescue boat arrives and you get all your people on the rescue boat first. Then you bail out leaving the enemy ship to sink alone.