Spirit Shareholders Approve JetBlue Merger

Such odd bedfellows. I can only guess/hope(?) Jet Blue will absorb them for their planes, staff, and gates. From what I've heard from Jet Blue staff, they've struggled to grow through normal means and this is an asset purchase more than anything. If it goes through, hopefully, that opens up space for a newer ULCC to grow and compete with Frontier. Maybe they'll even have a Big Front Seat equivalent :).

There is no need to guess. B6 already announced from the very beginning that the NK inflight product is going away and new deliveries will all be taken in B6 configurations.

Personally I think the ULCC have ruined this industry. People love ULCCs until one day things go wrong. Then they wonder why they've been sleeping in the airport for 3 days and there doesn't seem to be any open seats or enough customer service reps to help them. Or why they're stuck in a middle of seat between 2 passengers that weight 400 pounds each.

It's probably going to be far easier to turn an ULCC into a LCC other than the other way around. Now whether that will be profitable is another question.

Even the worst seat on jetblue is better than any seat on spirit. Jetblue mint product is very successful and is a product that competes with and exceeds any first class domestic product. I personally think the spirit product is trash and the nickel and dime pay for everything model is bad for consumers. I’ve seen spirit treat their customers horribly.

There goes the Northeast Alliance you guys.

Bye JetBlue, was nice knowing you.

Spirit Mint business class to London

Odd that you're implying that such maladies are somehow endemic to ULCCs... when we see all the above in the Big3+WN whenever the temp drops to freezing in Atlanta, or Texas thunderstorms stick around for more than a day.

The truth of the matter is that ULCCs have allowed more people to fly to more places, often from alternative gateways at that.

You think the likes of LHR/LGW and AMS are clusterf*cks NOW? ...let even a large fraction of the people who've instead been taking nonstops out of LTN/STN, go back to using them instead.

"I personally think the spirit product is trash and the nickel and dime pay for everything model is bad for consumers."

You may well think that, and in all fairness, you've probably heard many others whine in similar fashion...

...but wallets speak louder than words, and the numbers (not to mention consistent history) don't lie:
the airlines who've taken the a-la-carte ULCC model tend to be profitable and growing, whereas those who've attempted to provide "luxury" to the everyday economy passenger, are either struggling (JetBlue), or dead as the Dodo bird.

I mean, how are Virgin America, MidWest Express, Legend, etc doing nowadays?

ConcordianGirl CALM DOWN! Why be nasty to everyone, You could be the target VERY soon. Just saying....