Spirit Airlines shareholders to vote on much-delayed merger with Frontier or JetBlue

  • 📰 denverpost
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 47 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 22%
  • Publisher: 72%

Belgique Nouvelles Nouvelles

Belgique Dernières Nouvelles,Belgique Actualités

Spirit Airlines shareholders could pick a preferred buyer for their airline today, when they are scheduled to vote on one of the offers for the budget carrier. If shareholders reject the Frontier bid it would push for an agreement with JetBlue Airways.

Shareholders appear to be leaning against the bid preferred by Spirit’s board, a merger offer from Frontier Airlines that is currently worth more than $2.6 billion. Four previous votes have been postponed for lack of support.

Competing with JetBlue’s richer cash offer, the Spirit board and Frontier argue that antitrust regulators will block JetBlue from buying Spirit, making the JetBlue bid an illusory one. JetBlue, of course, disagrees. Frontier and Spirit announced their deal on Feb. 7, saying they would create a huge discount airline that would save consumers $1 billion a year in airfares by creating a powerful new competitor to American, United, Delta and Southwest.

Frontier and Spirit said that together they would have enough planes to fly many new routes that aren’t yet served by a discount airline, and they would create 10,000 new jobs by 2026 in the process. JetBlue figured that buying Spirit was the best way it could quickly add planes and pilots and break out of the second tier of U.S. airlines. JetBlue argued that it would help consumers too, by driving down fares more effectively than Frontier and Spirit.

 

Merci pour votre commentaire. Votre commentaire sera publié après examen.
Nous avons résumé cette actualité afin que vous puissiez la lire rapidement. Si l'actualité vous intéresse, vous pouvez lire le texte intégral ici. Lire la suite:

 /  🏆 13. in BE

Belgique Dernières Nouvelles, Belgique Actualités

Similar News:Vous pouvez également lire des articles d'actualité similaires à celui-ci que nous avons collectés auprès d'autres sources d'information.

Twitter to Hold Vote on Musk Merger on Sept. 13Twitter said that it would hold a shareholder meeting to vote on the company’s $44 billion acquisition by Elon Musk on September 13. yes i am a professional oral sex educator, and i understand the kkk is mad about a black man understanding real or sex, so who do they go to, this super corrupt terrorist police system, stop that N-WORD Mr kkk or hire one of your train foreigners you have in place, kkk and drugs
La source: nbcsandiego - 🏆 524. / 51 Lire la suite »