Honestly who really cares. If it happens we will all make the best of it, it wouldn’t be the end of the world and AA does offer things that Spirit doesn’t (real international flying, more money). But lots of us just want to grow organically and see where it goes. I’m sure back in the day when they had 120 planes everyone thought Southwest was a prime takeover candidate and that never amounted to anything.
I also think you’d have a hard time getting the DOJ to approve a merger and taking all the competitive pricing out of the market. It would for sure raise fares and hurt the consumer and that’s what they look at. Maybe under Trump it would get pushed through... But I think more likely it will be a mixup of the LCCs if anything is going to happen.
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