Originally Posted by
CincoDeMayo
That’s a far far outside optimism, but thanks for playing. They will be up to their ears in narrow body aircraft that they won’t be able to staff. Leveraged from the debt to buy Spirit outright. And then someone says “let’s buy wide bodies to further complicate things”
They are paying more for 9 widebody gates (4bn) than all of spirit (3.6bn).
At this point a dozen WB will be the cheap part. 330neos are about 90 million. You don't spend that much money to go 70% of the way and quit. Especially with the NYPA invested. They will want assurances their money isn't wasted.