PM Show Hr 1 | Ripples from the Biden Era Have Killed Spirit Airlines

The Michael Berry Show

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🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed human.
0:07.7	It's that time.
0:11.6	Lock and load.
0:14.9	The Michael Vary Show is on the air.
0:18.6	Thousands of air travelers are waking up to the news that their flights are cancelled.
0:24.2	After Spirit Airlines ended, operations overnight.
0:27.8	We're here right now at the Marine Air Terminal, otherwise known as Terminal A at LaGuardia Airport.
0:34.0	And as until just overnight, it was exclusively servicing spirit flights.
0:40.2	Obviously, that is no more.
0:42.5	The airline shuddering overnight, telling passengers who are stranded,
0:47.5	some have even come into this terminal expecting to get on their flights,
0:51.6	and they have been now turned away here.
0:53.7	So in 2023, Biden administration sued to block that nearly $4 billion merger.
0:59.6	In 2024, the federal judge blocked it.
1:01.5	The Biden administration brought that lawsuit.
1:03.5	It caused spirit not once, but twice to file for bankruptcy in 2024 and 2025.
1:09.9	This is just more of the mess we inherited from the Biden administration.
1:14.0	In September 22, Elizabeth Warren, who loves to write letters, sent a letter to the Justice
1:21.1	Department, to the labor, to the transport department saying that they should oppose
1:26.7	the merger with spared airlines.
1:29.1	JetBlue wanted to buy them for $3.8 billion.
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