Originally Posted by
StoneQOLdCrazy
If the government has a vested interest in Airline A, but not in Airlines B and C, which one do you think is going to have a (possibly illegal) competitive advantage?
Every airline without a sugar daddy would be subjected to government sandbagging.
Every airline employee that doesn’t work at spirit ought to be vehemently opposed to this harebrained idea. Especially those at Spirit’s direct competitors.
Also, turning Spirit into the next Amtrak or Postal Service is not going to be good for its employees.
It would require the company to wipe out its shareholders and lose control of the company. This is not a scenario that any management group would pursue willingly to gain advantage. Hopefully it buys time for a sale and the government can sell its equity stake (if it happens at all)