JetBlue Aims To Disrupt Frontier-Spirit Merger with Pricier Bid

Ben Goldstein April 14, 2022
JetBlue and Spirit aircraft in flight
A combined JetBlue-Spirit airline would grow to operate 675 Airbus narrowbodies by 2027. A merger would require reconfiguring Spirit’s Airbus A320 cabins to make room for premium Mint seats.
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JetBlue Airways surprised the industry with a $3.6 billion all-cash offer for Spirit Airlines, which it describes as “superior” to the previously accepted $2.9 billion cash-and-stock bid from Frontier Airlines. But is it really superior? The proposal from New York-based JetBlue clearly offers a...
Ben Goldstein

Based in Washington, Ben covers Congress, regulatory agencies, the Departments of Justice and Transportation and lobby groups.

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