Ethan Berg

@freetimeectomy @SpeakerRyan call his number 202-225-0600, they don't read tweets so flood his office with your concerns

@SomeRndmGuyUT @AcuffMUSE The whole not doing well at the box office doesn’t indicate an issue with the movie. People just aren’t going to the movies due to how expensive it is

@AcuffMUSE I’ll do as I damn well please. I didn’t say “the movie sucked”. I said it is not doing well at the box office and Disney is on a bit of a losing streak with Star Wars. I don’t have to see the new movie to know that SW is in a financial death spiral right now.

I haven’t seen Mando and Grogu. Won’t watch it until it hit streaming. However. The box office numbers are speaking very loudly. It is time for Disney to walk away from Star Wars for about five years and do a hard reset. Any magic left in the franchise is dead.

@Murky2025 @aprilcali84 @Polymarket It was probably $65 for my wife and I and that’s only one bucket of popcorn and 2 bottles of water. Insane

@aprilcali84 @Polymarket Haven't been to the movies since before covid. Took my daughter the other day. I let her splurge. The final price for an afternoon at the movies for 2 was $86.

JUST IN: “The Mandalorian & Grogu” opens with the lowest box office debut of any Disney Star Wars movie.

@ScottJonesy @powerlock9502 The Hutts were known to be fighters, they just got lazy over time. But they were once strong fighters

@powerlock9502 Is it? The whole Coin /Hutt stuff made no sense. Let alone Hutt being some agile fighter. How was Leia able to check out Jabba as apparantly, they're all super agile now? Mate I'd watch a Transformers movie and enjoy it over this crap.

OK so I managed to see #MandalorianandGrogu Yeah, it's bad. It's really bad. It feels like a bunch of season 3 quality episodes bunged together. But worse. The plot is ridiculous, the characters are stupid, the dialogue is atrocious. #DisneyStarWars theguardian.com/film/2026/may/…

@MarvinMontanaro @MutenRoshi31 It’s a reflection of the current economy and that theaters are still in decline. For my wife and I it was $38 for IMAX tickets and $23 for Popcorn and 2 bottles of water. For a lot of people that’s unaffordable when you can wait 3 months for it to be out on streaming

@MutenRoshi31 Being the worst opening Disney Star Wars movie ever isnt a good sign.

So sick of this disingenuous narrative that if the movie makes its budget total then it made money. It has to make A LOT MORE than its budget because of ticket splits and marketing (and this movie had A LOT of marketing). You're looking at a STEEP uphill climb here.

@rileywatsson @HistoryLover57 @Bill_Kirch The way Favreau/Filoni and Pascal were talking pre-release yes, it would probably be the last time we see them. Now I’m not so sure

@RealEthanBerg @HistoryLover57 @Bill_Kirch you think this is the last time we’re ever gonna see din and grogu? let’s be realistic now

the mandalorian and grogu was by far the worst star wars movie ever imo. just astonished by how much nothingness was able to fill up over two hours of screen time

@rileywatsson @HistoryLover57 @Bill_Kirch Considering this was most likely the finale for these characters, what more development do you want?

@HistoryLover57 @Bill_Kirch so character development is just supposed to stop after one project?

@RobForLiberty It has more to do with less people going to the theaters than anything. I paid $38 for 2 tickets for IMAX. Glad I could afford it but that’s not affordable for others

Opening lower than the Han Solo movie is wild stuff but not surprising whatsoever. Disney has been horrible for Star Wars. It never should have happened.

@zackorizzi @Vedthalegend @_ZachGriff @AmericanAir It’s only really possible because of the seating arrangement. All economy plus and business class so less seating

@Vedthalegend @_ZachGriff @AmericanAir A smaller plane flies Singapore to New York. I’m sure it has the range

Is @AmericanAir's longest route (DFW-BNE) not as premium as the airline hoped? The original plan: fly the fancy new 787-9P with Flagship Suites with doors. That plane was delayed, so AA launched with the regular 787-9. In winter 2025, the 789-9P finally took over. But this weekend, AA quietly swapped winter 2026 back to the regular 787-9. A telling sign for premium demand on AA's longest flight? Or is this plane just better suited for London?

@Willpa11 @7v8cb8x8jw @AmericanAir Depending on route, aircraft weight and wind direction, this entirely plausible and fairly common

@7v8cb8x8jw @AmericanAir “We hope we have enough fuel to make it so we have to re route”

Shoutout to @AmericanAir takes off without enough fuel on my Friday night flight and then have to re route and land somewhere else to get fuel… than today have rebooked my 6am flight home 7 times due to maintenance while all other flights take off… than let us finally board and have us sit on plane for over 3 hours… a disgrace

🚨#BREAKING: Watch as newly released thermal surveillance footage shows the moment a Frontier Airlines jet struck a trespasser during takeoff at Denver International Airport in Colorado, forcing the aircraft to abort and make an emergency landing.

Zach Galifianakis calls out comedians who have President Trump or other politicians on their podcasts but don’t challenge them and just “fake laugh,” contrasting it with his Between Two Ferns episodes like the one with Barack Obama 😳👀 He also recalls Hillary Clinton asking him not to bring up the email controversy, so he said he wouldn’t do the episode unless they allowed it

@MikeBrice @BenRemaly Spirit employed/outsourced a lot of their services to 3rd party contractors/vendors. Most contractors have contracts with multiple airlines at every airport.

@BenRemaly A lot of people would still be employed.

In an alternate world where the DOJ approved the merger, Spirit would no longer exist. In the current world, Spirit no longer exists. What am I missing?

The Biden admin blocking JetBlue’s acquisition did not kill Spirit. Nor did $4+ jet fuel alone - though that clearly hastened its demise. Spirit was circling the drain for years. It’s gone now because: - richer pilot contracts raised its costs significantly. You can’t have an ultra-low-cost carrier with high costs - it tripled down on the cheap “revenge travel” boom post-pandemic, betting it would continue - but travel demand rapidly shifted to “premium” travel and heading abroad - two segments Spirit can’t serve - massive engine issues forced Spirit to ground a large (& expensive) chunk of its fleet - the big one: Buoyed by massive hubs and even bigger frequent flyer programs, major airlines like AA, Delta & United finally figured out how to weaponize stingy basic economy fares and fill larger planes with passengers who previously booked Spirit

@Houseofyogi @aagha The merger most likely wouldn’t have saved them, and would’ve dragged down Jet blue a lot quicker. They’re the next airline to fall

@aagha should not have blocked the merger

Spirit Airlines died tonight at the hands of the socialist crusader, Elizabeth Warren She must be so proud to add another casket to her achievements. Tonight at 3am, Spirit turns off the lights. 14,000 jobs gone. 30+ smaller airports lose service. JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders, flight attendants union, literally everyone voted yes. The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owned 80%. For anyone who understands numbers: 9% isn’t a monopoly against 80%. Warren said no. She wrote letters. She pressured Buttigieg. Biden’s DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024. Her argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year. Now look at her collateral damage she dusts under the rug. 510 pilots gone in the months after. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed in December. 14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight. And that’s just the people in Spirit uniforms. Catering goes. Fuel guys go. Baggage crews, gate agents, airport coffee shops, hotels and rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back. 40,000 people out of work because of one woman’s moronic crusade against the market. And the math ain’t mathing. Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%. That’s reality. Not some BS number from a “study.” So @SenWarren tell me how this saves the consumer money? Cheap carriers in a market drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years. Warren killed it. That’s what moronic politicians led by socialism do. Then with her own blind arrogance, she tweeted Spirit’s collapse is “a Biden win for flyers.” A win. 14,000 people are reading termination letters tonight. And she’s taking credit. This is socialism in 2026. A senator who’s never made payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company. She saved you a billion on imaginary paper. She cost you ten times that in real life. She didn’t protect consumers from anything. 14,000+ will go from working to welfare. She will make sure to blame billionaires, hardworking tax payers, AI, capitalism and whatever monster they will make up tomorrow hiding under your bed. Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything. She called it a win. I hope you enjoy winning.

@ForeverModoc @demisdev @neeratanden JetBlue is most likely the next domino to fall

@demisdev @neeratanden Yes, fuel prices - That's why all the other airlines are going bankrupt, oh wait except they aren't't

Given the news today that Spirit Airlines is shuttering and thousands of people are losing their jobs, I think we should honestly assess whether the Garland DoJ stopping the JetBlue merger with Spirit Airlines was the right call. Perhaps it was but any analysis must consider as part of the equation the loss to so many families ro decide.

@demisdev @neeratanden Spirit has been having significant financial issues since Covid. The high fuel prices was just the dagger

@neeratanden Spirit have said the unforeseen spike in fuel prices (caused by the illegal war if you didn’t know) and here you are peddling propaganda cover for Trump? What gives? What’s your motive for ignoring Spirit statements to glaze Trump?

@JSmith95974 @finding_jordy @JRemec88386 @latayprime @SpiritAirlines Engine issues from the manufacturer, nothing really to do with Spirit directly. More of an Airbus/Pratt and Whitney issue

@finding_jordy @JRemec88386 @latayprime @SpiritAirlines Haha. Yeah. It’s tough to get revenue when your airplane can’t fly due to engine issues. 😁

Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event).

@MIAviationKing @bronnybarnacle @IshrionA The MQT route is dependent on the pending lawsuit/issues with the airport

@bronnybarnacle @IshrionA This whole thing was gate squatting, so glad someone said it

United Airlines delays new Chicago (ORD) routes from June to October 25: • Champaign (CMI) • Kalamazoo (AZO) • Lansing (LAN) • La Crosse (LSE) • Bloomington (BMI) • Tri-Cities (TRI) • Erie (ERI) • Rochester (RST) Marquette (MQT) is cancelled.

Brendan Sorsby has entered a gambling addiction program for sports betting, which could end his college career. The second paragraph of this story is remarkable.