Mergers/Finance
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3 Links I Love: American Goes Plus, JetBlue Takes the Lead For Spirit, Alitalia Saves
This Week’s Featured Link American introduces a new business-class fare that includes first-class perks – TPGI don’t understand this. American is introducing…
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The Battle for Spirit Escalates As the Vote Draws Closer
It’s big week for those of you who care about the future of Spirit Airlines. The shareholder vote on the Frontier merger…
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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…