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Spirit Airlines

Airline named as a party to the proposed acquisition by JetBlue Airways.

Exact source label, not a standalone legal-entity, ownership, liability, or market-power determination.

Official record topology2024 / 1 public body / 1 unavailable
Official labelSpirit Airlines
DecisionJan 16, 2024

Court blocks JetBlue's proposed acquisition of Spirit Airlines

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Named role
Merging party
HHI coverage
0 paired / 1
Policy organizationSpirit AirlinesOfficial label / 1 record / 2024

  • Record identityExact source labelNot legal-entity resolution
  • Official coverage1 dated record2024
  • Market scope1 contextLinked by the official record
  • Permitted useRecord tracingNot a liability finding

Official record chronology

Why this exact label appears

1 records / 1 sources

Jan 16, 2024

Decision

Docket 1:23-cv-10511

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Court blocks JetBlue's proposed acquisition of Spirit Airlines

The district court blocked JetBlue's proposed acquisition of Spirit after a DOJ and state challenge under Section 7 of the Clayton Act.

Named as Merging party

DOJ identifies Spirit Airlines as the proposed acquisition target in the blocked transaction.

Domestic airlines
Economic coverage0 paired / 1 windows
Official source Record dossier Event JSON

Descriptive economic context

Public HHI evidence around each record

Each row searches the linked market profile for strict pre-event, same-year, and strict post-event observations. Missing anchors remain visible.

0Paired
0One-sided
1Unavailable
HHI unavailable2024-01-16
Domestic airlines

Court blocks JetBlue's proposed acquisition of Spirit Airlines

Strict pre
Unavailable
No earlier HHI
Event year
Unavailable
No same-year HHI
Strict post
Unavailable
No later HHI
Pre-post change
Not available
Pair not available

Before/after HHI differences are descriptive comparisons between discrete public releases. They do not estimate the causal effect of the policy event.

Bounded market context

Markets linked by the cited records

1 profile handoffs

United States / Transportation

Domestic airlines

1 named record / 0 paired HHI windows

Merging party
Open market profile

A market link records the scope named by the official event. It does not establish that every named organization participates throughout that market or define a relevant antitrust market for a different matter.

Source custody

Official records behind the dossier

1 public source

Optional observatory crosswalk

Related market participant profile

Crosswalk to the same source-labeled airline participant profile.

Optional participant and operator crosswalks are observatory navigation aids based on matched public labels. They are not legal-entity, affiliate, beneficial-owner, or corporate-control determinations.

Open crosswalk

Reproducible record packet

Reuse the exact organization dossier

Filtered index and relationship routes preserve the organization slug, exact role, event ID, market context, source URL, and inference guardrails.

Organization ID
pent-spirit-airlines
Profile slug
spirit-airlines
Named edges
1
License
CC BY 4.0

Official-record interpretation boundary

These dossiers compile exact organization labels from official public records. They do not resolve corporate identity, ownership, control, affiliate status, liability, or market power beyond what the cited record expressly states.

A relationship means an official source names the organization in connection with the dated record. It does not by itself establish liability, market power, ownership, control, or that the organization participates in every market linked to that record.

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