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JetBlue Makes Bid To Acquire Spirit Airlines
Just two months after Frontier announced its plan to purchase Spirit Airlines, JetBlue has made an even more generous bid to purchase the ultra-low-cost carrier. This offer has acted as a competitive blow to Frontier Airlines, which was hoping to use consolidation to grow its presence across America. (aeroxplorer.com) More...
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Spirit and Frontier would be a great combo. Jet Blue should have picked up Virgin America. I suspect JBU may have learned their lesson by letting Virgin slip through their fingers, that, or they are just intentionally trying to drive up the cost to Frontier and their owners. Now the question is what is going to happen with Allegiant. Will they be left at the alter?
Spirit is east-US focused, and Frontier is west-US focused. Both are clear LCCs. This is the most logical of the merger choices ... but as we know, truth and data are moot to the power of $ and, well, power itself ...
Allegiant is kind of a niche operation: leisure flights between smaller underserved airports and resort/vacation destinations, infrequent less-than-daily services on many of their routes. Other leisure items like rental cars, hotels, tours, etc. are significant parts of their business model and revenue stream. Seems unlikely Allegiant is looking to be acquired or that other airlines would have much to gain by acquiring Allegiant.
All three airlines fly pretty much the same places.....
Eliminating consumer choice is only going to increase already high fares in the US.
Eliminating consumer choice is only going to increase already high fares in the US.
That will be an interesting merger!
From the perspective of a passenger who has flown all three airlines, I'd say that any transaction that erases Spirit is a good one. Awful service. Flight attendants who remind me of the teacher from "The Wall": "How can you have your pudding if you don't eat your meat!" They'd charge you for air in the cabin if they could.
you mean they Don't " charge you for air in the cabin" ? Surprising!
