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Business Wars Daily

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Business Wars Daily

Audible

Business, Business News, News, Daily News

4.6717 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Today is Thursday, April 21 and we're looking at JetBlue Airways vs. Frontier Airlines.

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Thank you. From Wondry, I'm David Brown, and this is Business Wars Daily on this Thursday, April 21st.

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It seemed like a match made in heaven.

1:12.5

Well, if not in heaven,

1:18.2

then certainly somewhere in that general vicinity. A week before Valentine's Day, Spirit Airlines and Frontier Airlines announced they were planning to get hitched. The proposed merger would

1:23.1

create one behemoth budget carrier that the company's called the country's most competitive ultra-low-fair airline.

1:30.7

Well, before you add in all those extra fees, of course.

1:33.7

The two airlines made sense together.

1:35.7

Spirit has a strong base of business in the East while Frontiers conquered the Wild West.

1:40.6

They have similar business models as well.

1:42.7

Together, the unnamed joint entity would send more than a thousand daily flights

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filled with bargains seeking passengers to destinations in the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America, USA Today reports.

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