The Anthony Cumia Show - May 05, 2026


The Ghost of Spirit Airlines ｜ 05-03-26


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12 minutes

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Word count

1,466

Sentence count

104


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00:01:00.100 Listen, all you New Yorkers.
00:01:02.620 You ain't taxi.
00:01:04.020 Okay, we're looking around.
00:01:05.320 This is the 77 WABC
00:01:08.380 minicast.
00:01:11.080 The Anthony
00:01:11.600 Cumia Show. Welcome.
00:01:14.500 Welcome. We're talking
00:01:15.880 about Spirit Air.
00:01:17.660 A little bit. An airline goes under.
00:01:20.500 Dunski. Gone.
00:01:21.700 Goodbye. And
00:01:23.200 And the finger of blame, oh, boy, is it being pointed in all directions.
00:01:29.120 But somebody that's getting a lot of heat is Liz Warren.
00:01:35.720 Yes, Liz Warren.
00:01:39.600 She was an advocate for the government, the United States government,
00:01:48.940 blocking a merger that would have taken place between spirit and jet blue jet blue offered up
00:01:56.240 3.8 billion with a b dollars in cold hard cash to buy spirit in 2022 shareholders flight attendants
00:02:04.960 union literally everybody voted yes they wanted this to happen the insiders knew that uh uh spirit
00:02:13.440 was on its last wing, on a wing and a prayer.
00:02:17.180 If I could make any more airline puns, I will.
00:02:20.320 Trust me.
00:02:22.160 And I guess Liz Warren said no.
00:02:28.140 She didn't like the idea of less competition.
00:02:33.240 She thought a merger between these airlines,
00:02:36.460 like other mergers between airlines, cuts down on the competition.
00:02:40.960 A lot of different airlines and discount air gives the people that she so loves and adores, the people of America.
00:02:53.080 I just love Americans, the people.
00:02:57.420 And she said, nope, we got to move forward and block any merger.
00:03:03.580 So she did.
00:03:05.020 she wrote letters pressured a buddha judge biden's doj sued and a federal judge killed the deal
00:03:14.500 in january of 2024 her argument of course the merger would have cost consumers one billion
00:03:21.800 dollars a year she was saving the people one billion dollars a year my god what a wonderful
00:03:29.880 person and uh now let's look at some of the collateral damage 510 pilots gone uh in the
00:03:40.740 months after uh they uh they uh lost the deal 1800 flight attendants furloughed in december
00:03:51.780 14 000 jobs in 2023 and 7 500 last week alone and that's just people in spirit uniforms
00:04:04.720 catering goes fuel uh fuel guys baggage crews gate agents airport coffee shops hotels rental cars
00:04:12.980 in 70 cities spirit flew to every airline job carries uh three or more jobs on its back
00:04:21.800 40,000 people out at work because one woman had a moronic crusade against the market.
00:04:30.500 That's what it is.
00:04:32.140 Spirit abandoned 90 roots during the death spiral.
00:04:35.080 Fares on those roots are up 14% on average.
00:04:41.860 And Senator Warren, Liz Warren, is the one that really pushed, her and Buttigieg, really pushed.
00:04:50.800 to have, to stop the merger.
00:04:57.400 Let's see what else is going on here.
00:04:59.400 She says, let me see if I can find this one.
00:05:02.300 Oh, yeah.
00:05:03.620 Here's Liz Warren's original post
00:05:06.540 when they were trying to stop the merger
00:05:09.840 between JetBlue and Spirit.
00:05:12.780 She goes, I've warned for months
00:05:14.880 that a JetBlue-Spirit merger
00:05:17.340 would have led to fewer flights
00:05:19.200 and higher fares and then she talks about the department of transportation and the justice
00:05:25.600 department they were right to stand up for consumers and fight against runaway airline
00:05:31.980 consolidation this is a biden win for flyers another biden win this is what warren said
00:05:42.440 right when they were trying to stop the merger.
00:05:46.220 Now, here's one of her latest posts
00:05:49.240 about the shutdown of Spirit Air.
00:05:56.060 Spiking fuel prices from Trump's war
00:05:59.280 was the nail in the coffin
00:06:00.920 for twice-bankrupted Spirit Airlines.
00:06:05.540 The JetBlue merger failed
00:06:07.740 because a judge appointed by Ronald Reagan
00:06:10.340 said the deal was illegal.
00:06:13.060 Republicans are desperate to shift blame
00:06:15.480 from higher costs hitting families.
00:06:20.700 She was integral, an integral part
00:06:26.360 in the merger not happening,
00:06:30.180 which would have saved Spirit,
00:06:32.760 would have been a consolidated airline,
00:06:34.820 like we've seen happen in the past
00:06:38.100 between JetBlue and Spirit.
00:06:40.340 But those employees, while there probably would have been some layoffs and redundancies,
00:06:45.080 there always is with a merger, it wouldn't have been this.
00:06:50.840 You have thousands of jobs that are gone.
00:06:54.480 You have people that were stranded in cities.
00:06:57.880 They don't know all the peripheral jobs that come from that.
00:07:02.320 And then you talk about competition.
00:07:05.320 That was their big thing.
00:07:07.300 There's one less airline now.
00:07:10.340 Out there. Her battle to keep airlines competitive resulted in one less airline being out there.
00:07:22.980 So now the airlines that are left can jack up prices on those routes, can take over those routes and do what they please.
00:07:34.600 that's how it goes she's a a commie socialist whatever you want to call it that doesn't
00:07:42.140 understand the free market they gotta get their mitts into everything these politicians
00:07:48.860 mostly democrats they love commies they love you know uh uh getting getting their snouts
00:07:57.420 into everything Americans should be able to do by themselves.
00:08:02.360 The free market, your own companies, your businesses.
00:08:07.580 They got to get in there and just shake it all up.
00:08:12.680 And that's what you saw happen here.
00:08:15.420 So now there are a bunch of people out of work.
00:08:20.820 Out of work.
00:08:21.840 Here's Pete Buttigieg.
00:08:24.780 This is clip A6.
00:08:27.140 This is him talking about blocking the merger back a couple of years back.
00:08:33.100 How'd that work out, Pete?
00:08:34.400 Let's listen to a Pete Booty judge.
00:08:36.040 Our department, the Department of Transportation, has generally not gotten involved in these merger cases, but that's changing today.
00:08:45.300 It is so important to make sure that passengers have choices, that they have access to low fares, that they have access to competition.
00:08:53.720 And yet we've seen less and less and less of that competition over the years.
00:08:58.720 We are taking a step that, again, is unusual in terms of recent years, but we think is the right thing to do, supporting the DOJ's lawsuit and independently using our own authorities, which are a little bit different from the DOJ, starting our own investigation and taking other actions.
00:09:16.340 Yeah. Good work. Good job.
00:09:19.940 wow that's that's what you want a competition you you eliminated jobs
00:09:28.620 and uh she's taking credit or she took credit for it uh she says uh she she's never made out
00:09:37.720 a payroll she's never run a business where she knows about the simplest economics like supply
00:09:45.320 and demand and what have you she was selling it on saving you billions on
00:09:52.660 imaginary paper that's what it is just this imaginary paper oh this is great
00:10:00.220 we're saving you billions well where are the billions oh you'll see it no no
00:10:05.780 they won't bunch of people out of work it's gonna cost ten times that much in
00:10:12.580 in real life does she get this she don't she didn't protect consumers from anything
00:10:20.880 14 000 jobs gonna go from working to perhaps welfare or unemployment and then she blames
00:10:30.760 the billionaires the taxpayers capitalism rate ronald reagan trump uh higher taxes yeah fewer
00:10:40.860 jobs that's uh that's what liz warren did that's what she did for you a lot of these
00:10:50.540 numbers that i'm getting are from yogi house of yogi on x he posted um a bunch of stuff about
00:11:00.420 what is happening with spirit and how senator liz warren is involved it's terrible and um
00:11:10.860 She should be ashamed of herself.
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