There you have it! Spirit Airlines died this morning at 3am. 14,000 jobs gone. 30+ smaller airpor…
May 2, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 comments
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There you have it! Spirit Airlines died this morning at 3am. 14,000 jobs gone. 30+ smaller airports lose service. Another casket added to the Democrat economic legacy.
JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders voted yes. Unions voted yes. Management voted yes. The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owns 80%.
For anyone who understands numbers: 9% is not a monopoly against 80%.
Elizabeth Warren said no. Democrats cheered her on. They wrote letters. They protested. They pressured DOT head "Mayor Pete" Buttigieg. Biden's DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024.
Their argument: the merger would "cost consumers $1 billion a year."
Now look at the real cost.
510 pilots gone. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed. 14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight.
And that's just the people in Spirit uniforms. Catering crews gone. Fuel teams gone. Vendors, suppliers, baggage handlers, gate agents — gone. Airport coffee shops, hotels, rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Uber and Lyft drivers. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back.
40,000+ people out of work because of one senator's crusade against the market and every sheep willing to follow her off the cliff.
Read that again. 40,000+ jobs.
And the math ain't mathing.
Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%.
That's reality. That's the market. Real life consequences of ignorant policy. Not some fake number from an "academic study."
Cheap carriers drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years. Warren killed that model. Democrats applauded.
JOKES WRITE THEMSELVES. Warren tweeted Spirit's collapse is "a Biden win for flyers."
A "win." 14,000 people are reading termination letters this weekend. Tens of thousands more already have or will shortly.
A senator who has never taken a risk or made a payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company.
She saved you a billion on imaginary paper. She cost you many multiples of that in real life.
They lie to tear down builders, risk takers, and job creators. They tear them down so they can mislead you. They mislead you so they can scare you. They scare you so they can consolidate power. Everything.
Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything. This mindset destroys. It is why a great place like Illinois — which should be a top 5 state economy — is bottom 5 in every economic and jobs metric that matters.
Prayers for everyone impacted by this completely avoidable tragedy.
Thoughts?
JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders voted yes. Unions voted yes. Management voted yes. The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owns 80%.
For anyone who understands numbers: 9% is not a monopoly against 80%.
Elizabeth Warren said no. Democrats cheered her on. They wrote letters. They protested. They pressured DOT head "Mayor Pete" Buttigieg. Biden's DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024.
Their argument: the merger would "cost consumers $1 billion a year."
Now look at the real cost.
510 pilots gone. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed. 14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight.
And that's just the people in Spirit uniforms. Catering crews gone. Fuel teams gone. Vendors, suppliers, baggage handlers, gate agents — gone. Airport coffee shops, hotels, rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Uber and Lyft drivers. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back.
40,000+ people out of work because of one senator's crusade against the market and every sheep willing to follow her off the cliff.
Read that again. 40,000+ jobs.
And the math ain't mathing.
Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%.
That's reality. That's the market. Real life consequences of ignorant policy. Not some fake number from an "academic study."
Cheap carriers drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years. Warren killed that model. Democrats applauded.
JOKES WRITE THEMSELVES. Warren tweeted Spirit's collapse is "a Biden win for flyers."
A "win." 14,000 people are reading termination letters this weekend. Tens of thousands more already have or will shortly.
A senator who has never taken a risk or made a payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company.
She saved you a billion on imaginary paper. She cost you many multiples of that in real life.
They lie to tear down builders, risk takers, and job creators. They tear them down so they can mislead you. They mislead you so they can scare you. They scare you so they can consolidate power. Everything.
Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything. This mindset destroys. It is why a great place like Illinois — which should be a top 5 state economy — is bottom 5 in every economic and jobs metric that matters.
Prayers for everyone impacted by this completely avoidable tragedy.
Thoughts?