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03.05.26 - 21:30
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Congrats, Elizabeth Warren, On The Death Of Spirit Airlines (ZeroHedge)
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Congrats, Elizabeth Warren, On The Death Of Spirit Airlines
Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance
Elizabeth Warren has built an entire political career on presenting herself as the righteous defender of ordinary Americans against powerful corporations.
Every speech is some variation of the same script: she's fighting for workers, fighting for consumers, fighting for families, and standing up to greedy executives and monopolistic corporations that are supposedly rigging the system against everyone else. It is a message carefully designed to make her sound like a populist champion of the middle class while putting a polish on inherently broken socialist ideas.
When her flawed ideology collides with reality, it repeatedly produces outcomes that hurt the exact people she claims to represent. Spirit Airlines may be one of the clearest examples yet.
When JetBlue moved to acquire Spirit in 2022, Warren treated the deal like it was Apple, Netflix, Meta, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and the Third Reich all ...
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03.05.26 - 16:12
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Heathrow in talks with airlines to end row that could delay third runway (The Guardian)
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Airport seeks deal with BA owner, Virgin and billionaire local landowner, who has own expansion plan, over cost and service issuesHeathrow's new chair has opened talks with airlines and the billionaire local landowner Surinder Arora to defuse a row that threatens to further delay the £49bn plan to build a third runway at Europe's busiest airport.Philip Jansen, who was appointed at the start of the year, is understood to have held meetings with the airport's carriers and with Arora, who has been promoting his own £25bn expansion scheme, in the hope of finding the middle ground in a row over cost and service issues. Continue reading......
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03.05.26 - 11:18
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UK airlines given green light to cancel or consolidate flights to conserve jet fuel (The Guardian)
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Carriers examining which flights can be cancelled with least disruption under plans to avoid summer travel chaosUK airlines will be able to cancel or consolidate flights this summer under new plans to conserve jet fuel as the war in the Middle East continues to disrupt supplies.The measures are being taken to avoid major disruption as Britons jet off on their summer holidays. Airlines are looking carefully at their timetables to see which flights can be cancelled in advance and cause the least delays. Continue reading......
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03.05.26 - 01:30
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Spirit Airlines shutdown: How to get home and get refunds (The Guardian)
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If you've been snagged in the airline's now-defunct flight schedule, here are some things to know about next stepsThe collapse of the US-based Spirit Airlines may mark the end of an era for travelers with a certain financial sensibility.But if you've been snagged in their now-defunct flight schedule, here are some things to know on how to get home, and get whole. Continue reading......
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02.05.26 - 22:30
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Spirit Airlines to shutter after no Trump deal: What to know (The Hill)
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Spirit Airlines on Saturday announced that it shut down all operations after failing to not reach a deal for a government bailout. The Trump administration drafted a $500 million bailout plan to save Spirit from ceasing operations, a plan that several Trump allies in Congress opposed. The plan was opted in exchange for warrants to......
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