That was an excuse for chump to grab another headline.
Everything he touches, dies.
He could care less about the laid off workers or stranded passengers.
Fuck your deals! You have no deals!

even some repuke assholes cried foul over that fucking proposed grift

Trump is a fucking con man.

of the two worst airlines????????????

putrid service..........

it would have reduced expenses and helped sustainability.

To the extent that there wasn't overlap, it would have retained competition.

When the merger was turned down because of the huge amount of competition that disallowing it would help maintain (that's deeply sarcastic, by the way) it was pointed out that the result of this would inevitably be Spirit's complete demise. And that it's departure from the market would reduce competition more than the merger would have. But disallowing the merger also preserved jobs, not a small bit of the thinking. (Of course, the shutting down ended jobs *and* put a lot of passengers in a pickle, but while predictable and entailed, it's certainly not a consequence of stopping what would probably have been a sounder outcome. I guess.)

If your default 'setting' is 'mergers, bad' then it's hard to get past that setting default to see further down the road, say, a business default.

that if there is already a drop off in number of passengers, with the economy bad and getting worse.....and that will hurt all the airlines, but especially the nominal ones first??????

Trump would have used OUR taxpayer dollars to buy a struggling airline.

But an airline has no place in the functions of a federal government.

And we wouldn't have "owned" it anyway.

Trump would have re-named it "Trump Airlines".

And like his prior "Trump Airlines," it would have gone under anyway.

Type up Spirit airlines on YouTube and you will get numerous videos of fist fights and screaming arguments. It made Soul Plane look like a first-class upgrade by comparison.

That's all the people who had bought round-trip tickets on Spirit, took their outbound flights, and now are trying to figure out how to get home.

Have been to Colombia 4 times in the last 5 years, Spirit was $300 r/t out of Tampa, American was $550.
And that was with a carry on & one checked piece of luggage.
For $250 savings I will put up with slightly less leg room & service.

LATAM Colombia was a little cheaper but you had to fly out of Miami. I think they also fly out of Orlando now but still a pain to get there from St Pete.