Spirit
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3 Links I Love: Frontier Ups the Ante, Luton Moves South, Flair is Canadian, Breeze in Long Beach
This Week’s Featured Link Frontier Airlines and Spirit Airlines Announce Amended Merger Agreement – Spirit AirlinesThe shareholder vote is a week away,…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – JetBlue Gets Hostile With Spirit
Cranky Talk – JetBlue Gets Hostile With Spirit First Spirit agreed to merge with Frontier, then JetBlue swooped in with an offer.…
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JetBlue Gets Hostile With Spirit, Appeals to Shareholders to Fight
We always knew this was a possibility. Shortly after Spirit set a shareholder vote on June 10 to approve the Frontier merger,…
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Counterpoint: Spirit Torches JetBlue Offer
Last week, I expressed my confusion at Spirit rejecting JetBlue’s offer, which seemed to be a clearly better outcome for shareholders than…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – What is the Point of a Travel Agent?
Cranky Talk – What is the Point of a Travel Agent? We told you we were going to get to your listener-suggested…
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Spirit’s Questionable Move to Shun JetBlue for Frontier
I’ve said it here before; I do not get this JetBlue/Spirit merger plan. That, however, is completely irrelevant when it comes to…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – The Oakland California Corridor Challenge
Cranky Talk – The Oakland California Corridor Challenge I know I owe you a couple more days’ worth of trip reports, and…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – The Airplane Seat of the Future
Cranky Talk – The Airplane Seat of the Future Remember in our last episode when Dave got angry about seats that recline?…
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JetBlue Twists Itself in Knots Trying to Create a Rationale for Buying Spirit
It looks like Breeze’s effort to buy JetBlue has been thwarted… by something that surprisingly isn’t also an April Fools’ joke. The…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – Dave Flew Spirit!
Cranky Talk – Dave Flew Spirit! People love reading trip reports, but do they love listening to them? We are about to…
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A Look at the Growth of ULCCs in Maps
Some days, I like to sit around and dream up the kind of data I can pull from Cirium. I’m only slightly…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – Russia Invades Ukraine
Cranky Talk – Russia Invades Ukraine We did things a bit different this week. We started recording last week, and then we…