Spirit Airlines built its brand on the promise that flying could be miserable, but cheap. Its reported shutdown and liquidation now poses a less cheerful question for antitrust: What if the competitor regulators fought to preserve was already running out of runway? That question has triggered the sort of debate that is easy to politicize and much harder to analyze carefully. Within hours of Spirit ceasing operations, critics of the Biden adminis…
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