Originally Posted by
Aero1900
I believe an eventual merger between frontier and spirit is very likely. It will not be in the near future, however. Frontier will IPO before a merger, and that's still some time off.
Meh... You could argue it either way. Our CEO resigned, VP of Flight Ops is returning to the line, Director of Training is returning to the line, the company halted the new uniforms changes for Flight Attendants, you can't book tickets on Frontier beyond 10/20/2015, etc.. Everything appears to be lining up for a merger. The assumption that they need to IPO for Indigo to make money was planted. That could still happen, but Indigo could have bought Frontier simply for a portfolio write-down and still make a killing via a merger. Either way they have set themselves up to win.
End of the day- best thing that can happen here is to merge with someone. We need to be big to make it long term.