Originally Posted by FahQ2

Um 330neos are just shy of $300 million each, so a dozen costs about the same as the offer to buy Spirit.

So that’s 12-13 billion of debt on the balance sheet and they haven’t even painted/equipped NK planes, reworked the route structure, hired to staff widebodies, negotiated pay scales, etc.

Meanwhile, you can probably make a pretty decent return on investment leasing out prime gate space. I’m not saying it will never or could never happen, but your logic has some expensive holes in it.