Port Everglades
As one of South Florida’s leading economic engines, Broward County’s Port Everglades is the gateway for international trade and cruise vacations. Consistently ranked among the third busiest cruise homeport in the world, Port Everglades is also one of the nation’s leading container ports and South Florida’s main seaport for receiving petroleum products including gasoline, jet fuel and alternative fuels. Port Everglades is a self-supporting Enterprise Fund of Broward County (Florida) government with operating revenues of approximately $183 million in Fiscal Year 2023 (October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023). It does not rely on local tax dollars for operations. The total value of economic activity related to Port Everglades is more than $26.5 billion. More than 192,000 Florida jobs are impacted by the port, including nearly 11,000 people who work for companies that provide direct local services to Port Everglades. For more information on Port Everglades, visit PortEverglades.net.www.porteverglades.net
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Sep 28, 2026
John ThornburgGUEST
I think the most prominent way was was the loss of competition between Spirit and JetBlue, particularly on overlap routes, routes that both airlines served, and particularly nonstop routes.
John ThornburgGUEST
So a flight from a particular city, a direct nonstop flight to another city, from Port Lauderdale to New York, for example.
John ThornburgGUEST
And because of the nature of Spirit Airlines being an ultra-low-cost carrier, the the antitrust division was particularly concerned about how this would affect cost conscious uh travelers uh just another term for price sensitive travelers but obviously you know to some extent we are all price sensitive um no one wants to pay more for a ticket than they need to but spirit you know was was clearly catering particularly to individuals who were uh comfortable with kind of a no frills airline experience and and that's you know, there was concern about how the elimination of the Spirit product would affect those types of consumers.
John ThornburgGUEST
Beyond that, you know, Spirit was disruptive more generally in the airline, you know, space, and the division presented, you know, economic evidence at trial, and this was work that was done during the investigation that showed that, you know, Spirit was not only brought low airline fares to the routes where it was present, but it also forced other airlines to lower their prices as well.