Originally Posted by CincoDeMayo

"What would someone buy?" Duffy asked. "If no one else wants to buy them, why would we buy them?

"By the way if you do do *Spirit, ⁠who comes next? Who is the third?"

He added: "I care about the employees at Spirit... We also have to be good stewards of the tax dollar. We can't make dumb investments, we can't put taxpayer money that is going to be lost or just forestall the inevitable."

"If Spirit goes away, it's better for JetBlue," Duffy said. "If we bail ​out Spirit, I can't imagine that JetBlue would love that."

He is correct on all points. Does it suck, yup. But spending tax dollars to bail out an airline that cant show any direction to correct course is such waste.