Originally Posted by
PossibleDeviation
If JB acquires Spirit they’ll be divesting gates in FLL and the Northeast. The additional airplanes and 3000+ spirit pilots will need to go somewhere. A JB acquisition gives ORD, DTW and DFW the best chance to continue as they are.
It’s still amazing that people have such a hard time understanding this.
F9 = ORD/DFW/DTW smaller, if not gone
JB = WANTS to grow in the rest of the country, so why not use our existing bases to do so?