The Case of the Vanishing Competitor

Alden Abbott May 22, 2026

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Spirit Airlines was supposed to be the competitor antitrust law saved. Instead, it may become the cautionary tale antitrust law cannot quite avoid.

The carrier’s disappearance has transformed the JetBlue-Spirit merger litigation from an ordinary postmortem into a test case for how antitrust law should treat distressed challengers in concentrated network industries.

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