Socialist antitrust activists killed Spirit Airlines — and learned nothing
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Socialist antitrust activists killed Spirit Airlines — and learned nothing
It is a bad time to fly. Willie Walsh, head of the International Air Transport Association, drove home the point this week when he warned that “war-related disruptions in the Middle East and rising fuel costs have shifted the outlook for airlines to the worse.”Walsh pointed to the recent closure of Spirit Airlines, America’s most iconic budget carrier, and warned that more airlines could suffer the same fate if current trends continue. That mean…
The disappearance of Spirit Airlines from the US market is generating a profound reconfiguration of the low-cost air sector, with Frontier Airlines and JetBlue Airways positioning itself as the main beneficiaries of the capacity that left the historic ultra low cost (ULCC) vacant. According to data from the OAG schedule analyzer, competing airlines incorporated close [...]
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