Originally Posted by
LongHornFlyer
This was my thought…now I know the government doesn’t have to be logical in any way, but if they are saying that Spirit and JetBlue cannot merge in an effort to protect the lower income consumers, wouldn’t it make sense for the government to offer some financial or regulatory support if those actions lead to the demise of said airlines? How can they say they want to protect those consumers and then shortly after say nah, **** those same consumers. Politics is a nasty game.
There's not an obvious mechanism to directly bail out NK just because they serve the Poors. What they could do is allow B6/NK to make some minor face-saving tweaks to the deal and then magically it becomes palatable to the admin/DOJ. Assuming B6 is still even interested.
But I didn't think they could just waive all that student debt either, so maybe they can just write a bailout check.