I am not attacking anyone personally, but this thread is yet another example of pilots not thinking for themselves and depending on others to spoon-feed them critical information.
No, the RAH proposal is not being "fastracked". The entire initial proposal can be found in a number of places. Take five minutes, look it up and read it. There are legal procedures that need to be followed.
MEH actually had scope that protected them from RAH, but an arbitrator ruled that what RAH was doing was a codeshare and not an alterego. If you picked ten CBA's off of a shelf you would probably find the exact same MEH scope language in 6 or 7 other airlines' contracts.
There are no other bidders, as of yesterday. The law states that after an initial qualifying bid, additional bids can be made if they meet certain requirements. Now that the price has been set, and it can be argued that RAH is actually offering closer to $60 Million, I would be shocked if there weren't more intersted parties.
I am biased, no offense to the RAH pilots, but I really hope another "similiar" airline throws $113.25 Million our way (that is the starting point now for any additional bids, $109.75 for F9 plus $3.5 termination fee for RAH).
Maybe we can start a paypal link and buy ourselves.