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Old 04-08-2024 | 02:35 PM
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Old 04-08-2024 | 04:39 PM
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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.
spirit management is to blame yes. Biden administration is 100% to blame. If they had not contested the merger it would be half way completed and some bank would have infused plenty of cash to overcome any headwinds until we could start making money w an 8000 pilot airline and diversified profitable product line.
Old 04-08-2024 | 04:45 PM
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spirit management is to blame yes. Biden administration is 100% to blame. If they had not contested the merger it would be half way completed and some bank would have infused plenty of cash to overcome any headwinds until we could start making money w an 8000 pilot airline and diversified profitable product line.
Please correct me if I'm wrong here. Didn't Spirit shareholders vote in favor of the JB merger over the F9 merger? Didn't NK management warn shareholders that they were not confident that a JB merger would be approved? So if NK mgmt warned against a JB merger and the shareholders voted for the JB merger anyway, is there not an argument here that the NK shareholders have a large share of the responsibility for the current situation?
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Originally Posted by Noisecanceller
spirit management is to blame yes. Biden administration is 100% to blame. If they had not contested the merger it would be half way completed and some bank would have infused plenty of cash to overcome any headwinds until we could start making money w an 8000 pilot airline and diversified profitable product line.
JetBlue management didn’t have the appetite to fight for it…. They could have went through the appeal process completely….
Old 04-08-2024 | 05:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Guard Meow
clown post, andy mention of jewish space lasers?
space Jews are no joke. The Rothschilds control the banks and the devil worshipers are kidnapping our children to harvest adrenochrome from their blood!

Do your research

and by research, I mean listen to some podcasts you find on facebook.
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Originally Posted by Noisecanceller
spirit management is to blame yes. Biden administration is 100% to blame. If they had not contested the merger it would be half way completed and some bank would have infused plenty of cash to overcome any headwinds until we could start making money w an 8000 pilot airline and diversified profitable product line.
The Biden administration can hardly be blamed for finally enforcing an antitrust law that should have been enforced for decades. By a plain reading of the Clayton Act, the merger was illegal. The judge agreed. Plain and simple. JetBlue could have appealed, but they chose not to. They wanted out, or they didn’t think they could win on appeal. Spirit management warned the shareholders about this. They knew too.

Especially in conservative circles, claims are made that judges are “activists” seeking results and need to instead follow the “text” of the law. Well… that’s exactly what both the DOJ and the judge did in this case. They followed the text of the law.

I agree that the best outcome would’ve been for the merger to be approved and I feel awful for you guys, but let’s be real about where the blame lies.
Old 04-08-2024 | 08:30 PM
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Please correct me if I'm wrong here. Didn't Spirit shareholders vote in favor of the JB merger over the F9 merger? Didn't NK management warn shareholders that they were not confident that a JB merger would be approved? So if NK mgmt warned against a JB merger and the shareholders voted for the JB merger anyway, is there not an argument here that the NK shareholders have a large share of the responsibility for the current situation?
Spirit management said that because they are ride or die ULCC and were all ready for their new jobs at Frontier. It was a smear campaign to get what they wanted not hit was best. The judge went rogue. Total BS ruling.
Old 04-08-2024 | 08:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Swakid8
JetBlue management didn’t have the appetite to fight for it…. They could have went through the appeal process completely….

The lawsuit wouldn’t have been brought in the first place if it wasn’t for the Biden admin.
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Originally Posted by Guard Meow
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What does Andy have to do with it? I didn’t see him mention lasers??
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Originally Posted by Noisecanceller
The lawsuit wouldn’t have been brought in the first place if it wasn’t for the Biden admin.
Exactly this. Biden issued a executive order that mandated his DOJ to go after M&A. Spirit is a total POS airline don't get me wrong but the facts are the facts. Joe Biden is the reason we are where we are.

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