Originally Posted by Swakid8

I think it is a reach to blame this administration. If you want to blame someone for this merger not going through, I would blame JetBlue management. I truly believe that they started looking for the quickest and fastest escape offramp to get out of the merger once they got cold feet. Their arguments in court for the merger didn't do them any favors and then filing for the appeal and then shortly pulling the plug afterward was in my opinion a half-assed effort on their part to fight for the merger.

Bottomline, Spirit management is to blame for the position that Spirit is in today, having to rely on a merger to bail them out. It is unfortunate too.