Originally Posted by
11atsomto
Is it me or does anyone else find humor that the Department of Justice's Antitrust division along with their very left of center allies in Congress, are trying so hard to protect the Spirit Airlines brand/ and the ULCC business model as some great altruistic vehicle for serving the poor like MTA Buses or something, all the while so much of their success has been using strategies designed to exploit the unaware consumer who is more likely than not to be poor and/or low income.
Don't get more wrong I think if approved ,the new company will be a pretty light shade of green as their will be more yellow in that blue than we think.
The other irony is a few years ago they were looking at mandating a minimum seat pitch. But now all of a sudden NK is the "savior" of the industry? They need to pick a street.