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Democrats’ fingerprints are all over the Spirit Airlines crime scene

Regulators no longer have to worry that Spirit Airlines might upset the air-travel market by merging with the wrong competitor. 

The now-defunct airline made poor business decisions and had to cope with tough circumstances.

But if its demise were an Agatha Christie mystery, the fingerprints of Joe Biden’s antitrust officials would be all over the crime scene. 

These zealots fought a proposed deal between JetBlue and Spirit, and congratulated themselves on a 2024 court victory that doomed Spirit to likely oblivion. 

This was wanton economic destruction masquerading as antitrust enforcement. 

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who never met an antitrust action she didn’t like, exemplifies the perversity.

Spirit Airlines pilot gave emotional farewell to passengers after company announced shutdown: ‘Onward and upward’

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What is Spirit 2.0? Travelers are collectively pooling cash to buy defunct budget airline — raising $88M so far

After the Biden administration got a federal judge to put the kibosh on the JetBlue-Spirit deal in 2024, she celebrated: “This is a Biden win for flyers!”

Last week, as Spirit teetered on the edge of the grave, she expressed dismay:........

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