Analysis: How A U.S. Judge Brought Down America’s True Low-Fares Sector

 Spirit Airbus A320neo in flight

A Spirit Airbus A320neo.

Credit: Rob Finlayson
"To those dedicated customers of Spirit, this one’s for you,” U.S. federal judge William Young wrote in his January 2024 decision that ended the proposed Spirit Airlines-JetBlue Airways merger. It took less than a year for those words to take on quite a different meaning: Florida-based no-frills...
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