Originally Posted by
SFA320
Well, I don't see it. When they built up Spirit they had other airline investments, and they didn't transfer any airplanes away Spirit. The bigger F9 gets, the more money for an IPO, the more money for a sale, etc.
They claim F9 is a cash cow, so why divert resources away from it? Yes there is opprtunity up North, but plenty here too.
Yep. Remember the entire point of business; profit and growth. You don't get those from diverting orders away from a profitable airline to start a new project. They could use frontiers profits to invest in a new airline, but you don't grow by sacrificing a current investment. That's not how you achieve growth. They want Frontier as big as possible, with lots of forecast growth to rev up an IPO. If they diverted orders to an upstart, their hopes of a multi Billion dollar IPO would be down the toilet.
I understand they lack of faith in our growth, given the history of our industry, but think about it from a business point of view. They want to be big.