Low-cost airlines Frontier and Spirit have agreed to a multibillion dollar merger that creates the fifth largest U.S. carrier. CNBC’s Phil Lebow breaks down why the airline companies decided to get together.
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What fresh hll is this?
1 bad airline + another bad airline = disaster airline
I’m looking forward to traveling with them!!! As much as I’m looking forward to riding the NYC subway at night!!
Lol
I see whatcha did there. 😆
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R.I.P Daniel Shaver. I hope he learns how to play Simon Says in the after life. 😂
I’ll pay extra so I don’t have to fly with kcalb people.
Front-Spit would be an appropriate merged name ! .. I’ll never fly with them anyway …
This helps consumers dramatically. Delta, Southwest, United, Continental, and US Airways conspired with each other to increase the prices of domestic airline tickets between July 1, 2011 and June 14, 2018. Their price-fixing conspiracy generated more than $21.7 billion in profit for just American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, and Southwest. These profits were reportedly made at the expense of unknowing consumers. Keeps the legacy airlines honest.
Southwest San Diego to Austin. $79
I’ve never flown on either of them. Who cares?
Cool hope it’s affordable
When isn’t it affordable
zlsofw
VUM.NGO
Here’s hoping someone from NBC sees this.
Whoever is in charge of Live Broadcast is constantly drinking, eating or typing over the mic, and it is incredibly hard to listen to the news.
I feel simply muting that workstation would be an easy fix.
There should be a law forcing Spirit and Frontier to put padding in their seats.
well, extra $10 on every ticket then…
@John Huang Fine by me. I for one am willing to pay more for a civilized experience and that’s why I fly Delta.
Lifehack: Bring your own cushion. Boating cushions work great and are cheap enough if you lose it, it doesn’t matter.
@technick the part you sit on has a little bit of cushion, the problem is that the seat back is literally an ironing board wrapped in leather.
There is a law. It’s called capitalism.
Vote with your $$$
cm4fre
What would be a good name for this new airline?
ConAir lite
@Expert Witness We suggested Breezeway Airlines. With blue and lime green livery.
The most crappy airline. They take your money on a flight that is already fully booked then put you in the sorry for your luck line.
Less carriers less competition
Fifth largest, handsdown the worst
Lmao two of the worst airlines converging…. hmmmm
Two losers come together to create the “biggest loser” airlines
Last time I did the math on this…trash + trash = bigger trash…oof
Lol we need American to merge. Yes the American Frontier Spirit has returned. Its Passenger Manifest Destiny. Bwahaha
How is this going to be more competitive???
Standing room only for short flights.
Spirit sucks .
Nope, the low cost leader
I wonder if after the merger they will start doing proper maintenance on the fleet?
Sure will . . . . Roto-Rooter has the contract!
Creates the 5th largest carrier and the 1st shittiest carrier…
Safety first 😳
As close to Con Air as you get.
They better name the airline “Fear-it”
Um I’ll take the 5th largest girl in a room but not for my airline 😅
I’ll stick to Southwest.
Frontier and Spirit are the Greyhound of the sky’s !
Just Nasty!
Merger of Frontier and Spirit = FrontierSpirit, Merger of FedEx and UPS = FedUp!
I think “The Spirit of Frontier” is better.
Fortunately I made my last flight with US carriers last year and will never fly with any again nor go to from or through the US. All American companies are scams and where I reside US items are 5 times the price for interior things. For instance Campbell’s Tomato Soup is $4, while a can of Maggio Tomato Soup twice the size from Mexico is 55 cents. A Toyota 1/2 ton 4X4 truck sells for $16,000 while a Chevy 2 WD drive 1/2 ton is $87,000. The rest of the world chooses not to buy American products with their $27 an hour labor rates.
The two most ghetto airlines. Mouthpieces required
Every time I’ve flown on a budget airline I’ve had a bad experience. Somehow they ALWAYS end up late and it actually would have been cheaper to fly delta or another mainstream airline in the first place because I had to buy a replacement flight
SPIRITER • FRONTIT
I have a lot of stock with spirit but I only check my stuff once a month or less. This was nice news as I just saw the stock jumped up.
At $21 a share, that was a good buy. It’s around $25 after decision to merge
@Take The5th I bought during covid lockdowns at 14.90
@Mr. Nick Outstanding
The Frontier Spirit
Just in the combination of Frontier & Spirit will be called Low Class Airlines
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Good Budgeting。
the Mega Sucky Airline!
Maybe frontier will now get real tray tables lol. I love frontier though lol
Spirit and Frontier come together become the co-worst airlines in America 😂
Flew Spirit Airlines , it was a brand new plane with hotties as our stewardess. It was awesome.
You don’t like them then drive to your destination.
So how long til their’s one airline left lol.
Dollar 💸 trees air and dollar general air has merge
Their seats are comfortable as seating on side of the highway.
I have flown with both with no issues at all. It’s the quality of people that fly with them that truly give both such a hang up.