Spirit wasn't asking for a government subsidy to get saved from bakruptcy. They were asking to be allowed to get merged with JetBlue (which could've saved them from bankruptcy) and got denied by the government. Those two things aren't the same.

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rogerrogerr 2 hours ago | parent [-]

My understanding is that the Spirit/JetBlue merger was blocked by the Biden DOJ. Were they asking for that again, or was it a different thing that failed in negotiations with the feds recently?

	▲	gizmo686 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The negotiations that were occuring directly prior to Spirit's shutdown were not merger related; but a direct government bailout.