Originally Posted by
spooldup
Lastest Airlines Confidential podcast had some info....
"The CEO thats being brought in is there as a caretaker to get this to a merger with Frontier and that is probably the best strategic move for Spirit"
"They are going to make Spirit look as much like Frontier as possible so it can merge at some point"
"And that merged airline is going to be run by Barry Biffle, not by anybody else"
TC was a huge proponent of a frontier merger. Why fire him for someone else to do the same? And if they wanted the merger why not take one of the several offers they already had?