Originally Posted by 11atsomto (Post 3663574)

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.

Originally Posted by Lincoln Osiris (Post 3663635)

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.

Originally Posted by RiddleEagle18 (Post 3663970)

exactly. Just a week or two ago “Biden” tweeted this…


Cracking down on junk fees is about transparency, which leads to more competition, brings down costs for working Americans, and keeps growing our economy from the bottom up and the middle out, not the top down.

And yet they oppose removing the original American junk fee airline.

Originally Posted by RiddleEagle18 (Post 3663970)

Originally Posted by Blue Dude (Post 3664430)

Dear God, what does this even mean? If we can't even understand the principle behind a policy, how can anyone possibly support it, short of rank partisan politics?

And yeah, it's rich that they are both supporting the ULCC model and attacking junk fees. It's almost as though they have no governing principles other than what sounds good at the moment.