
Spirit Airlines’ collapse has become a political Rorschach test: one side says blocked mergers killed it, another says deregulation and Wall Street did, and some are using it to argue for nationalizing the airlines entirely. They are all reaching too hard. Sp…

The shutdown of the budget airline after 34 years has left 17,000 staff members unemployed.

The collapse of the US-based budget carrier due to a doubling in jet fuel prices will cost thousands of jobs.