Spirit’s collapse shows why bigger companies aren’t always a bad thing
Spirit’s collapse shows why bigger companies aren’t always a bad thing
- May 18, 2026
- Jan Brueckner, economics, offers insight on Daily Wire
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As UC Irvine economist Jan Brueckner put it to Slate: “A merger of those two carriers [Spirit-JetBlue] could have helped both of them and helped the traveling public, because what the merger would’ve done is create a larger low-cost carrier.” In his view, Spirit’s precarious financial footing argued in favor of greenlighting the deal, since doing so would have at least had the potential of saving the company.
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