{"id":628469,"date":"2024-01-17T09:44:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T04:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=628469"},"modified":"2024-01-17T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T04:38:00","slug":"jetblues-buyout-of-spirit-airlines-blocked-over-threat-to-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/jetblues-buyout-of-spirit-airlines-blocked-over-threat-to-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"JetBlue&#8217;s buyout of Spirit Airlines blocked over threat to competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge is siding with the Biden administration and blocking JetBlue Airways from buying Spirit Airlines, saying the $3.8 billion deal would reduce competition. <\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department sued to block the merger, saying it would drive up fares by eliminating Spirit, the nation&#8217;s biggest low-cost airline. <\/p>\n<p>JetBlue said it disagreed with the ruling and was considering whether to appeal. <\/p>\n<p>The New York carrier argued that it needs the deal to compete better against bigger rivals that dominate the US air-travel market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge is siding with the Biden administration and blocking JetBlue Airways from buying Spirit Airlines, saying the $3.8 billion deal would reduce competition. The Justice Department sued to block the merger, saying it would drive up fares by eliminating Spirit, the nation&#8217;s biggest low-cost airline. JetBlue said it disagreed with the ruling and was considering whether to appeal. The New York carrier argued that it needs the deal to compete better against bigger rivals that dominate the US air-travel market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}