Spirit Airlines Takeover

Follow our airline news for complete coverage and analysis of the competing efforts by Frontier Airlines and JetBlue Airways to buy Spirit Airlines.

Airline Weekly

JetBlue Faces Calls to Lower $3.8 Billion Purchase Price for Spirit Airlines

It increasingly looks like JetBlue is overpaying for Spirit.

4 weeks ago

Airlines

U.S. Trial to Block JetBlue-Spirit Merger Gets Underway

Affordable air travel for U.S. consumers and control of the domestic market remains central to the JetBlue-Spirit merger court case.

Nate Raymond, Reuters | 4 weeks ago

News Blog

JetBlue Pilots Back Spirit Airlines Merger

Pilots at JetBlue Airways are the latest to back the carrier's proposed $3.8 billion merger with Spirit Airlines. The combination, if it wins antitrust approval, would create the fifth largest airline in the U.S. The decision to support the merger was recently approved by the JetBlue chapter of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), which…

Edward Russell | 2 months ago

Hotels

Hyatt Thinks a Return to Offices Could Boost Business Travel

Today's edition of Skift's daily podcast looks closer at Hyatt's business travel optimism, JetBlue-Spirit merger spoils, and business travel spending trends.

Rashaad Jorden | 3 months ago

Airline Weekly

Allegiant and Frontier to Make Big Gains if JetBlue-Spirit Merger Approved

JetBlue keeps getting its ducks in a row for approval of its proposed Spirit merger. But even a new agreement with Allegiant Air may not be enough.

3 months ago

Airlines

JetBlue’s Fare Plans for Spirit Air

Today's edition of Skift's daily podcast looks closer at JetBlue’s plans for Spirit Air, Skiplagged’s latest lawsuit, and Qantas’s new strategy.

Rashaad Jorden | 3 months ago

Airlines

JetBlue Would Raise Spirit Airfares by as Much as 40%: Report

An admission by JetBlue that it would raise Spirit airfares could doom their proposed merger.

Edward Russell | 3 months ago

Hotels

IHG Has a New Hotel Brand for the Middle Class

Today's edition of Skift's daily podcast looks closer at IHG’s new brand, Booking Holding’s European concessions, and a JetBlue-Spirit Air timeline.

Rashaad Jorden | 3 months ago

Airlines

JetBlue-Spirit Airlines Proposed Deal: A Skift Timeline

The proposed JetBlue-Spirit merger has many twists and turns in the last year, and here's a look at the major developments of a deal that would shake up the airline industry.

Rashaad Jorden | 3 months ago

Airline Weekly

Spirit Airlines: 5 Things That Went Wrong Last Quarter

It's not a good summer to be a domestic-focused budget airline in the U.S.

4 months ago