> Trump administration nears $500 million deal to rescue Spirit Airlines, WSJ reports

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Wow, whatever happened to letting the Free Markets work?

Airlines were fine until jet fuel surged 100% by trump's own doing

https://www.iata.org/en/publications/ec … l-monitor/

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Oh.

As of April 2026, Spirit Airlines (parent company Spirit Aviation Holdings, Inc.) is primarily owned by its former creditors—including institutional bondholders and investment firms like Citadel Advisors and UBS Asset Management—who took control following a debt-for-equity exchange during a 2025 bankruptcy restructuring. The company is publicly traded under the ticker symbol FLYYQ.

FLYYQ?   Is that fuq you in investor-speak?

https://x.com/schwartzbWSJ/status/2046959328196689972

Sprit is too big to fail?  Or...  warrants to pave the way for a suitable merger?

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Airlines were fine until jet fuel surged 100% by trump's own doing

https://www.iata.org/en/publications/ec … l-monitor/

  A lot of people are going bust now who were were fine before Trump fuqed the economy up.  Now the taxpayer is bailing out an airline, the UAE (a reported $100B currency swap), US farmers (another $30B emergency handout coming up in Congress) and the gibs-me-dat stampede is only starting.

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Spirit has been in and out of bankruptcy for years. Really shyt company that should die. But bidenomics was not a good era for them.

Maybe the problem is that the high leverage/discount fare airline business model fuqing sucks, seeing as so many go bankrupt.

VP_Spiro_T_Cheney wrote:

  A lot of people are going bust now who were were fine before Trump fuqed the economy up.  Now the taxpayer is bailing out an airline, the UAE (a reported $100B currency swap), US farmers (another $30B emergency handout coming up in Congress) and the gibs-me-dat stampede is only starting.

If the Islamic wackos in Iran are finished off, it may be worth it.

It's the market and corporate malfeasance that is the problem.  Government money will not stop that.

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If the Islamic wackos in Iran are finished off, it may be worth it.

Sorry, no.  Those mullahs weren’t bothering me.

Also fuq your “USA Global Cop” bullshyt, that only benefits the asshole billionaires who use those wars to steal the world’s resources while sad sack working taxpayers get fuqed.

VP_Spiro_T_Cheney wrote:

  A lot of people are going bust now who were were fine before Trump fuqed the economy up.  Now the taxpayer is bailing out an airline, the UAE (a reported $100B currency swap), US farmers (another $30B emergency handout coming up in Congress) and the gibs-me-dat stampede is only starting.

Farmers are America's first socialists.

Did UAE help in dealing with Iran?  That woud explain the swap.

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Free markets only apply to the poor and the working class.  Unless those free markets benefit them (such as employers having to pay more) then it's illegal.  You see, it's one way only -- the direction which benefits the wealthy.

Whst is the typical corporate profit margin?

If the government keeps taking ownership shares in companies, pretty soon we're going to have a government-managed economy to rival the old Soviet Union's.

Do you really want to trust Democrats in Congress or the White House to responsibly manage ownership stakes in corporations?

https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/2046998677986722285