Rachel Abrams

Because at the time, Spirit said, we need this.

The DOJ obviously didn't buy that argument.

And now here we are.

I want to talk about what Spirit's demise means for the future of air travel more broadly.

Like, since they came on the scene, there have been other low-cost budget airlines like Frontier and Allegiant.

So what does the collapse of Spirit mean for those guys, if anything?

I do wonder also about the bigger airlines, the Uniteds, the Americans, etc.

Like, I do wonder whether the bigger guys will now have just that much less incentive to offer competitive low-cost fares.

Do you foresee that happening?

It's interesting because the spirit era was really marked by these airlines stripping amenities out from what they offered so that they could offer low budget fares.

But what you are describing sounds like almost going in the opposite direction, like more and more offering these luxury amenities.

And it feels as though what you are describing is a real widening of the division that already exists in air travel and so many other facets of American life between the haves and the have nots.

Niraj, thank you so much.

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