Well that explains it?

Huh.

The focus of this lawsuit is about whether the airport authority even has that authority, to regulate airlines.

That's how Joe Sprague, the senior vice president of external affairs at Alaska Airlines, broke down what's at stake in the airlines campaign against $15 to KIRO. You can see it yourself at about 1:58 of this video.

(No, that doesn't make sense to us, either.)