Analysis: Spirit’s Bankruptcy Was The Result Of Unintended Consequences

Spirit Airlines tails
Credit: Rob Finlayson
“To those dedicated customers of Spirit, this one’s for you,” US 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: Spirit on Nov. 18 filed for...
Aaron Karp

Aaron Karp is a Contributing Editor to the Aviation Week Network.

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