Originally Posted by iahflyr

Frontier/Spirit would be approved, and Alaska/Hawaiian will be approved. In those cases two similar airlines are merging to better compete with the Big 4 and keep prices down,

JetBlue’s goal was to shut down an ULCC, remove that completion, and pilfer their planes and employees to grow quickly. That would have raised prices for consumers, and as a result the DOJ sued and the judge ruled in their favor. Two very different scenarios.

For most of our lifetimes there were 6+ true large carriers. I think that’s where the industry is heading again. Alaska/Hawaiian will be the first brick to fall. We will see if Frontier/Spirit becomes a reality, or if something else is cooked up.