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Spirit Airlines' collapse offers antitrust lessons for airline industry competition

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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Spirit Airlines' collapse offers antitrust lessons for airline industry competition

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  1. Fortune TIER_1 English(EN) · James "Jimmy" Moore ·

    I litigated the JetBlue-Spirit merger. A few thoughts on the future of antitrust in the airline industry

    A former DOJ Antitrust Division attorney who worked on the JetBlue/Spirit case argues that Spirit's collapse wasn't inevitable.