Spirit Airlines was destroyed by Elizabeth Warren and Biden

[Zincwarrior]

Yes, they have indeed had financial issues. Luckily JetBlue has never had to file for bankruptcy. Frontier filed for bankruptcy back in 2008. Notably after a credit card processor withheld ticket sales proceeds.

Yes. I wish them both good fortune.

 

[Rawley]

Allowing them to go under preserves the routes. A merger would have eliminated them.

How's that?

No one has responded as to why the government should even give a happy damn about a low cost airlines. I mean it is comical. Cut food stamps, ah, I don't get food stamps. Cut health insurance premiums, ah, I get mine at work. Limit polling stations, ah, I vote in the basement at my local church. Eliminate cheap airline tickets, OH HELL, the government best do something about it.

The merger was a brazen effort at rent-seeking. Jet Blue has been up Spirit's ass for years. It would have made extra profits, in the form of "rents", easy pickings. The reality is, this economy loses something like THREE TRILLION dollars a year in rents. Estimates are that our incomes have been reduced by 45%, and GDP is 25% less, than where it would be due to the cumulative effect of those rents over the last forty years.

I mean you can look at graphs, say, GDP growth year over year, the trend line moves downward around 1980. At the same time, income growth collapsed to near nothing while productivity soared. Working to eliminate rent seeking is the golden ticket. I mean the numbers speak for themselves. Deficit, we wouldn't have one. Wealth inequality, well yeah, it will always be around but there will be fewer Mega-yachts and more F-150's.

This has been at the core of the messages from Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. But talk about MSM, does anyone even know what rent-seeking is? But this whole thread is a master class in the Republican art of deception and deflection. An action to address rent-seeking behavior and prevent an oligopoly market is opposed by screams of jobs, cheap airfare an government involvement in the private market.

Our incomes are going down by 45% because Biden and Warren put Spirit out of business. OK

 

[rightwinger]

Cool, but we are talking about Spirit who went bankrupt in 2024, due to Xiden's hyperinflation, impacting everything from fuel, to peanuts

Trump wasn't President in 2024, nor was anyone doing anything about Iran in 2024, when Spirit was forced into bankrupty due to Xiden's economy.

Spirit survived its bankruptcy
It couldn’t survive the increase in the price of TRUMPgas

 

[Lockback]

Spirit survived its bankruptcy
It couldn’t survive the increase in the price of TRUMPgas

 

[struth]

Spirit survived its bankruptcy
It couldn’t survive the increase in the price of TRUMPgas

really? I could of sworn I heard they shut down cause they couldn't get out of bankrupty

 

[Jaxsie]

Yes. I wish them both good fortune.

My son in law flew for JetBlue early on in his career. He had nothing to say but good things regarding his short time with them. He wasn’t with them for very long as he got a much better job offer doing international flights with another major company. He also is a pilot and flies the KC135 refueling jets.

 

[Jaxsie]

really? I could of sworn I heard they shut down cause they couldn't get out of bankrupty

They actually did not survive bankruptcy the second time.

 

[struth]

They actually did not survive bankruptcy the second time.

True it got out in March, 2025, and went right back in by August....not sure why it ever got out....it could never get from under all the debt from the four years prior

Had it been allowed to merge with JetBlue we woudln't be here.....sad

 

[Jaxsie]

True it got out in March, 2025, and went right back in by August....not sure why it ever got out....it could never get from under all the debt from the four years prior

Had it been allowed to merge with JetBlue we woudln't be here.....sad

At least they would have had a chance if the merger with JetBlue had been allowed to happen. When that failed it just sent them spiraling downward even more.

 

[Godboy]

50 percent increase in the cost of jet fuel caused them to go bankrupt

Short-term (since early 2026 geopolitical shock)

• Prices jumped about 55% within weeks after the initial Middle East conflict escalation
• At the peak in early April 2026, they were up as much as ~95% compared to pre-conflict levels
• Some estimates put the surge at 100%+ (roughly doubling) globally
• In certain markets or analyses, increases as high as ~125% have been reported

Price levels (to give context)

• Late 2025: about $2.10–$2.30 per gallon
• Early April 2026 peak: around $4.88 per gallon
• Recent levels: roughly $3.80–$4.00 per gallon

Why didnt they go under when gas was 8 dollars per gallon? Why are they the only ones going out of business today? Why arent the other airlines going bankrupt?

 

[rightwinger]

Why didnt they go under when gas was 8 dollars per gallon? Why are they the only ones going out of business today? Why arent the other airlines going bankrupt?

How much longer will they last as TRUMPgas keeps going up?

 

[struth]

How much longer will they last as TRUMPgas keeps going up?

Not sure, but I can handle a transitory spike due their desperation, I made it through the four years of the demafascit policies for four years, a month ain’t gonna kill me

 

[hadit]

Price of jet fuel has doubled since TRUMP war

Spirit AirlinesFAILED under Trump

And you have failed to tell us why it's his fault. That's why you keep bringing him up, isn't it?

 

[struth]

Spirit survived its bankruptcy
It couldn’t survive the increase in the price of TRUMPgas

Sprirt couldn’t survive the four years of damage done by the xiden admin, they had some hope of getting out after Trump got elected, but the damage was too great

 

[rightwinger]

Sprirt couldn’t survive the four years of damage done by the xiden admin, they had some hope of getting out after Trump got elected, but the damage was too great

Spirit flew under Biden
Crashed and burned under Trump

 

[struth]

Spirit flew under Biden
Crashed and burned under Trump

Yes it couldn’t get out from finder the bankrupty from the xiden admin

It never crashed under Trump…it was working to recover from the damage done by xiden and just couldn’t

It’s a sad story and a great reminder not to vote for dems

 

[skye]