Spirit Airlines has emerged from bankruptcy only to again warn it may not survive a year, which carriers will buy Spirit Airlines fleet if it goes under?
However, JetBlue doesn’t appear to have the same appetite it once had and there’s no telling if finance will be as ambitious as it was for an outright merger. Frontier has also struggled in quarterly results and may not be able to pull off the asset purchases without the combination.
American and United both fly A320s and could be in the market. American would likely replace older equipment ahead of schedule but it wouldn’t keep any of the routes from Fort Lauderdale, instead moving them to Miami and throughout the system.
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