The downfall of Spirit Airlines demonstrates what many legal and economic experts have warned for years: stopping mergers or punishing scale simply for the sake of stopping “bigness” does not help consumers. In this case, it did precisely the opposite.
Spirit Airlines collapse shows the ‘New Antitrust’ movement is a flop
Originally reported by The Hill
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