Spirit terminates merger with Frontier Airlines

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The bidding war for Spirit started at the beginning of the year after Frontier Group Holdings announced a definitive merger agreement with the carrier.

In the announcement, Frontier touted that consumers would save millions by getting more ultra-low fares to more cities.

Spirit Airlines said in April that it received an "unsolicited proposal" from JetBlue to purchase all outstanding shares of Spirit's stock to break up the potential merger. At $33 per share, the offer represented a 50% premium to Spirit’s closing share price on the day before the announcement., the company persisted, offering several revised proposals since then.

A JetBlue airliner lands past a Spirit Airlines jet on taxi way at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport on Monday, April 25, 2022.on the proposed merger with Frontier twice to continue merger talks between its shareholders and the two competing airlines.

 

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