dear colleagues, your subcommittee could become part of a proud history of serious, bipartisan oversight, stretching from the teapot dome investigation to the boeing investigation to the watergate hearings to the tobacco hearings to the select committee on the january 6th attack. or you could take oversight down a very dark alley, filled with conspiracy theories and disinformation. a place where facts are the enemy and partisan destruction is the overriding goal. appears house republicans are going to go with the dark alley path. the first hearing for the subcommittee to investigate the, quote, weaponization of the federal government was nothing but grievance politics. meanwhile, in the senate, minority leader mitch mcconnell is trying to distance the party from a fellow republican senator. who could that be? it comes as president joe biden takes his post state of the union message to florida, keeping the focus on the fate of social security and medicare. and the admi
partnership with american here in new york and boston, which has enabled us to transfer slots from american and add a load more jetblue markets out of new york and boston, or whether it s our acquisition of spirit, which will almost double the size of jetblue. we ll still be a distant fifth, but it is going to allow you know, if you think what jetblue stands for, low fares and great service. we don t think you have to choose. there s been conversations about consumer protections. we ve had it since 2007, if we cancel or delay a flight, and it is in our control, we automatically send customers compensation. we think a bigger jetblue is better for everybody. what is your biggest nightmare, running an airline? is it lack of employees or what is it? well, i mean, i ve been doing this over 30 years. you know, it s always something different. you know, i think covid was a near death experience for our industry. we didn t really know, as we were in it, when that was going
robin, thank you for being here today. nothing joins americans together more than their frustration over airlines. now, jetblue, which i fly frequently, too frequently, actually, is about, perhaps, to merge with spirit airlines. you have a deal with american airlines. how does that help me or others, average travelers, how does that help make our lives more convenient? mike, first of all, thank you for flying jetblue so much. we do appreciate it. look, this is all about bump up his status. we can talk about it off air. look, we happen to think a bigger jetblue is better for everybody. the biggest challenge we have is we are 5% of the market. you have four massive airlines in the u.s. that have about 20% of the market, so 80% all together. the rest of us have 20% between us. so whether it is our commercial