Originally Posted by
sulkair
Thanks guys. And I know this is highly speculative stuff and not really worth the brain power expended, but what are your thoughts wrt bases? Do you see any obvious redundancies that would necessitate a closure here or there? I mean hopefully not, but anything glaring?
Frontier: DEN ORD MCO
Spirit: ACY DTW DFW FLL LAS ORD
I think it would effect focus cities but not bases immediately. You wouldn't think we'd carry ACY TTN and PHL, but then again that's the epicenter of the nation's population, so who knows.
Frontier has put a lot of focus on MIA, would that continue with a large presence in FLL? No idea.
Both Spirit and Frontier want/need ORD gate space badly, I definitely don't see that shrinking.
And obviously combining our presence in LAS would be a welcome marriage.
Overall it is a pretty good fit and a merged company would have the flexibility to choose which airports will remain focus cities/bases without merger conditions set by the DOJ.