Are you saying those days are gone? Just look at almost every TV show or movie

Is this like when I tell my kids “I’ll think about it”

instead of all the good wholesome modest women on Instagram etc?
We all use what we got to get ahead in life.

Yes………

https://www.reuters.com/business/sav...ad-2026-04-21/

Looks like the writing is on the wall.

"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.

brutal article.

Interesting read to be fair none of us know the strategic plan moving forward.

I guess he is right, why burden the tax payers on a product that does not generate revenue. ULCC is dead.

The role of the Federal Government is to not necessarily maximize financial return. The argument that jetBlue greatly benefits actually might work in Spirit's favor. Spirit's best argument is the downward pressure on airfare they create when they enter a market. jetBlue losing a key competitor won't drive down prices. Helping the little guy has rarely been bad politics.
Don't forget, U.S. commercial aviation is the least free market, most regulated industry in this country. Government involvement isn't uncommon.