[HN Gopher] US judge blocks JetBlue from acquiring Spirit Airlines
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       US judge blocks JetBlue from acquiring Spirit Airlines
        
       Author : ra7
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2024-01-16 22:11 UTC (50 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.reuters.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.reuters.com)
        
       | exabrial wrote:
       | I'm honestly tired of mergers over ~$100million or so when there
       | are like 5 players in the market. Leaves consumers in the ditch
       | as far as choice.
        
       | blessedwhiskers wrote:
       | As a JetBlue customer this is pretty disappointing. I certainly
       | feel a lack of competition in the airline space, but frankly it's
       | seemed that both Spirit and JetBlue are ill equipped to compete
       | with their much larger rivals. JetBlue's west coast presence
       | leaves a lot to be desired.
       | 
       | That said, it's seemed as the carriers coalesced in to monoliths,
       | the flying experience only got more miserable, although at least
       | some part of this is the pressure from the bottom that the ultra-
       | low cost carriers introduce in a market. I'd be curious to see
       | how much of the fall in fare price cited by the article accounts
       | for the introduction in unbundled fares by the legacy carriers.
       | IE, is this comparing a fare that a few years ago included a
       | carry-on, seat selection, etc to a fare today that doesn't?
       | 
       | ...also, the ruling actually includes a snippet of "Master of the
       | House" from Les Miserables in relation to the business model of
       | Spirit.
        
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