Originally Posted by
redhot
My guess is when F9/NK talked last month they got to look under the hood and see if a deal would be viable after a certain amount of debt is shed in the CH11 process.
They got to figure out if a merger would actually be good for Frontier. This isn't 2 years ago coming out of COVID and demand was ever rising. You couldn't get planes/pilots fast enough. Not sure right now doubling the fleet overnight is such a good idea anymore.
It might serve them well to stay in their niche and grow incrementally and methodically. Seem like Spirit got too big too fast and imploded.