The collapse of Spirit Airlines, following the blocked acquisition by JetBlue, offers lessons for future antitrust enforcement in the airline industry. The author, who litigated the case, suggests the outcome was not entirely predictable due to Spirit's prior option to merge with Frontier and its executives' stated plans for standalone profitability. External factors like rising oil prices also significantly impacted Spirit's cost-minimizing business model. AI
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RANK_REASON Analysis of a major airline's collapse and its implications for antitrust policy in the transportation sector. [lever_c_demoted from significant: ic=1 ai=0.1]
