Originally Posted by
bluespoon
2 airlines that nobody likes to fly will merge to make one that people will want to I guess. Or Spirit will shrink and cut costs so they can actually be profitable. It will be interesting to see if there really is a buyout. Technically that is anti consumer as the JetBlue merger so what was the point of not allowing the JB merger in the first place.
Yeah basically. The problem for NK currently is revenue and debt obligations. A few months ago NK (and F9) made some pretty dramatic overhauls to the product offerings in an effort to increase the quality of the product and revenue. NK looks like they are going to continue to make the full transition to a more traditional carrier as part of the BK plan. Which to your second point is why it was pointless to block the NK/B6 merger in the first place. Whatever entity emerges from BK and whoever it emerges with will not be a ULCC.